Artist Quotes · Page 292

“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”

— Clive James

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of…

— Elbert Hubbard

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

— Pablo Picasso

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of…

— William Blake

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

— Charlie Haden

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

— Ad Reinhardt

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, 'The…

— Glenn Ligon

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to…

— Leonard Shlain

We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,…

— Norman Mailer

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but…

— Henri Matisse

When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has…

— Erving Polster

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs…

— Jade Bird

Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do…

— Rachael Price

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live…

— Bob Dylan

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

— Alun Hoddinott

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

— Jacob Epstein

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

— Jeff Koons

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

— Rumaan Alam

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

— Tom Six

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit…

— Louis Riel

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

— Arthur Wesley Dow

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

— Nate Lowman

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

— Gene Black

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

— Jerry Harrison

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

— Warren MacKenzie

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

— Virgil Abloh

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

— Christopher Priest

They say life is like art and the world is your canvas, whether your picture be good or bad it will always…

— Anonymous

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

— Robert Genn

You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your…

— Jill Eikenberry

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's…

— Brynn Cartelli

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

— Steve Miller

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and…

— Diego Rivera

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my…

— Danny Gregory