Artist Quotes · Page 302

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

Every piece of art I've ever made was because I saw bad and could do better, or saw great and needed to…

— Anonymous

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

— Hans Haacke

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

— Josef Albers

I was once a struggling artist, so I just want to help others, and provide my resources and connections and the people…

— apl.de.ap

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

— Kody Chamberlain

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

— Peter Greenaway

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does,…

— Roger Waters

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had…

— Anonymous

emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube... the impression of colours strewn over the…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's…

— Sherwood Anderson

All I can say on the Guilford story - and this comes more from my perspective as a father than an artist…

— Daniel Clowes

Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em…

— Waylon Jennings

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Only the brave should teach…Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the…

— Pearl S. Buck

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.

— Thomas Rhett

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

— Paula Vogel

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

— Slim Moon

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

— Travis Scott

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

— Golan Levin

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

— Henry Hopper

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

— Michelle Stuart

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

— Rick Rubin

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

— Robert Barry

“For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel…

— Deb Caletti

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

— Jeffrey Lewis

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.

— Frank Shamrock

“I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

“The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art…

— William Saroyan

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

“Art should grasp the mind the way the vagina grasps the penis-Marcel Duchamp”

— Alice Goldfarb Marquis

“She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of…

— David Foenkinos

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

— Doja Cat

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

— Robert Hass

I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the…

— Rex Orange County

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

— Alex Grey