Artist Quotes · Page 283

Just doing a project because its an opportunity wont create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

— Marco Brambilla

I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and…

— Crystal Bowersox

“Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.”

— Charles Bukowski

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a…

— James Joll

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

— Robert Genn

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

— John Ruskin

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and…

— Georges Vantongerloo

“At its best, art can be nothing more than a means of forgetting the human disaster for a while.’ I am still…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Mario'd fallen in love with the first Madam Psychosis programs because he felt like he was listening to someone sad read out…

— David Foster Wallace

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their…

— Tony D'Souza

I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings;…

— Kerry James Marshall

Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs…

— Joan Jett

“The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then…

— John Green

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling…

— Anton Seidl

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

— David Luiz

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

— John Barth

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

— Aleksandar Hemon

The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.

— Cornelia Parker

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

— Gertrude Atherton

“In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.”

— William Faulkner

I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.

— Victor Vasarely

I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.

— Alan Vega

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

— Holland Cotter

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy...

— Auguste Rodin

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

— Hillary Clinton

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

— Alan Bean

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from…

— Aaron Rose

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst,…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

— Wyndham Lewis

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

— Marcel Proust

YouTube is a platform where people can be extremely, and sometimes brutally honest about how they feel about a certain artist or…

— Jonita Gandhi

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

— Common

I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

— Spike Lee

“Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times”

— Robert A. Heinlein

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

— Yoko Ono

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

— Gavin Rossdale

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

— Robert Hughes