Artist Quotes · Page 294

Sometimes as an artist you don't want to be an entertainer. You want to offend people and inspire them and that's not…

— Lacey Sturm

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

— Donatella Versace

We do things the way we do them and we do them unashamedly. It's our art. If you don't like it, that's…

— Jim Root

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

— Kate Millett

“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

— James Baldwin

“Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.”

— Fernando Pessoa

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves…

— Asger Jorn

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be…

— Gary Numan

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because,…

— Kid Rock

When we go all over the world and observe art therapy, it's used frequently with people who are having some kind of…

— Karen Pence

I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs,…

— Banks

Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color…

— Washington Allston

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the…

— Norman Bethune

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I always say this, but it's incredibly hard to capture live music. It's so hard because there's something that happens between the…

— Alana Haim

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

— Daveed Diggs

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

— Paula Cole

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

— Black Thought

“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.”

— Laura Chouette

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop…

— John Currin

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

— Henri Matisse

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

“When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to…

— Ingo F. Walther

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

— Susan Sontag

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory…

— Leonard Bernstein

“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?”

— Donna Tartt

“After all, a love of art is a fine thing for a young boy, but art is long—and life can be pretty…

— Vincent Price

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it…

— Pierre Berge

That's why I try to stay away from the big-name producers, so I can prove that it's not about the producer, it's…

— Sisqo

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To me, the making of art and experiences around that are the biggest part to me.

— Alison Sudol

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

— Jim Morrison

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

— William James

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

— Laurie Halse Anderson