Artist Quotes · Page 290

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

Even as an art teacher and someone very involved in the arts, I never knew what art therapy even was.

— Karen Pence

Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, is a U.K. electronica artist whose diverse tastes have helped fuel a lengthy discography.

— Anthony Fantano

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for…

— Tyga

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

— John David Washington

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to…

— Rolf Harris

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

— David Gilmour

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a…

— Georg Baselitz

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman,…

— Edward de Bono

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that,…

— W. H. Auden

It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to…

— Randy Houser

I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the…

— John Dewey

Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond…

— Claron McFadden

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several…

— H. R. Giger

I'm really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.

— Rich Brian

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…

— John Gardner

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

— Ben Eine

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could…

— Damien Hirst

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual…

— Wes Nisker

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

— Glenn Ligon

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

— Gerhard Richter

“I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy. I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.”

— Lana Del Rey

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

— Marjane Satrapi

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

— Joseph Conrad

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

— Bruce Pavitt

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

— Paul G

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

— Rudolf Nureyev

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

— Dizzee Rascal

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

— Oscar Wilde

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

— Dave Barry

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

— David Hockney

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

— Val Kilmer

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your…

— N. K. Jemisin

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I…

— Arshile Gorky

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining,…

— Willa Cather

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

— John Ruskin