Artist Quotes · Page 285

“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

— El-P

I do not want to make art and then try to dictate how people use it, or how people interact with it.

— Julien Baker

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

— Ashton Kutcher

Art may imitate wild nature; less often does it dare to place itself in the midst of it, and when it does,…

— John Hart

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

— Stacy Martin

If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave…

— Edouard Manet

In government they learned their lesson. They don't trust artists anymore. Now the money has to go through arts organizations. But, yeah,…

— Glenn Ligon

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning…

— Jerry Saltz

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more…

— Lee Ann Womack

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying.…

— Aphex Twin

“Adam'e arm reaching towards God. When I first stood in the Sistine Chapel I wondered if Michelangelo was aware of his blasphemy.…

— Anonymous

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting…

— Anonymous

“A conviction, unformulated but strong, rose to the working level of her mind - that painting did something more important for Nicholas…

— Ann Bridge

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first…

— Sigmar Polke

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

— Roy DeCarava

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

— Chris Marker

Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then…

— Edwin Starr

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

— John F. Kennedy

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way., I think seeing a picture is one thing and…

— Jasper Johns

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

— Fernando Pessoa

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

— Chuck Close

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

— Mitski

I know there are people who are praying for my downfall, but they're going to be like, 'Wow, Xan's actually an artist.'

— Lil Xan

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

— Artie Shaw

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

— Raymond Pettibon

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

— Joan Miro

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

— Gustave Courbet

If you call yourself an artist, you won't get anything published. Call yourself a photojournalist, and then you can do whatever you…

— Robert Capa

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is…

— Wyndham Lewis

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sincerest apologies to the friends who have to guess my drunk 'Draw Something' creations from last night.

— Kevin Pereira

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

— Paul Klee

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

— Leo Tolstoy

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

— Andy Warhol

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

— Lawrence Durrell