Artist Quotes · Page 296

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

— Moises Arias

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

— James Whistler

“The art of the saints is the ability to draw good out of every situation, no matter how bitter or painful.”

— Marc Foley

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

— Oscar Wilde

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

— Marilynne Robinson

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

— Paul Cezanne

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of…

— George Inness

In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his…

— Virgil Abloh

I watched my dad sketch a lot as a child, and I'm fascinated by hands. I feel like they're one of my…

— Taylor Russell

I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it.…

— Mirah

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the…

— Banksy

It's a long time coming as far as the work that I put in. Now I know that I got the stamp…

— Kendrick Lamar

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity…

— Susan Sontag

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive,…

— Georges Clemenceau

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.

— Alexandra Stoddard

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

— Eugene Ionesco

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon…

— Rudolph Valentino

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

— Omari Hardwick

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we…

— Grace Gummer

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

— Aya Cash

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

— Boots Riley

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

— Criss Jami

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

— Gunter Grass

I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist.

— Fabolous

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

— Aristotle

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

— George Michael

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

— Stevie Smith

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

— Herbert Bayer

“Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays”

— Dean Cavanagh

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes…

— Ryan McGinness

“Congratulations. You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them. I'll begin with you.”

— Paulo Coelho

“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.”

— Scott McCloud

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so…

— Megan Hart

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they…

— Jay Sean

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people…

— Takeshi Kitano

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a…

— Lou Reed