Artist Quotes · Page 286

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

— John French Sloan

“Participation in an art, although unrewarded by wealth or fame...is a way to make one's soul grow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

— Anonymous

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

— Corita Kent

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded…

— Theodor Adorno

One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.

— Gino Severini

“New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness…

— Fernando Botero

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is…

— Christopher Walken

I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people…

— Juicy J

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of…

— Mark Matousek

Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists…

— Fritjof Capra

If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is…

— Lawren Harris

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents…

— Rudyard Kipling

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy…

— Agnes Varda

People talk about the pop part - they don't talk about me being an independent artist. I made it look easy, that's…

— Dizzee Rascal

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

— Jackson Pollock

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

— Anonymous

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

— Jonathan Miller

We're the artist of our life, we shape things no one else can hear touch smell or see.

— Jeremy Limn

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

— Roseanne Barr

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

— Jay Sean

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great…

— Igor Babailov

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.

— Robert Ingpen

If you start as a Christian artist trying to be mainstream, you're done from the beginning.

— Kirk Franklin

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it…

— Kaskade

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not…

— Mark Duplass

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever…

— Grace Gealey

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

— Eddie Murphy

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

— Mary Gordon

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

— Anonymous

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was…

— James De La Vega

I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.

— Shannen Doherty

In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

— Georges Braque

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

— Bill Watterson

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

— Claire Messud

To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art.

— Jane Heap

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

— Nicholas Meyer

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

— Lawrence Weiner