Artist Quotes · Page 303

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

— Carl Andre

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're…

— Carmen Ejogo

“I know we can't all stay here forever so I want to write my words on the face of today and they'll…

— Shannon Hoon

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

— Jonny Lang

“Everything is art,' Tim says, a far-off look suddenly clouding those hazel eyes. 'Death is art. Life is art. Pain is art.”

— Jen Violi

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

— Gunter Brus

Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the…

— Phyllida Lloyd

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge,…

— Mike Svob

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears…

— Michael Haneke

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice.…

— Dana Schutz

A lot of artists are aspiring to fill an archetype as opposed to being themselves. Even if they can't quite put their…

— Daniel Caesar

What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

This is another world to the ones most Australians know. It was explained by my father once that it's like a blanket…

— Hetti Perkins

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and…

— Frank Stella

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had…

— Ellen Forney

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

— Maurice Ravel

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's…

— Dianne Reeves

“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

— Marie Windsor

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”

— Mark Simpson

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable

— Liz Phair

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

— Sarah Churchwell

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

— Galina Ulanova

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

— Erica Jong

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the…

— Robert Wilson

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

— Adam West

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and…

— Jeff Koons

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

— Adam Gopnik

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

— Edward Abbey

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

— Edouard Manet

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young…

— Hozier

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

— Georges Vantongerloo

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

— Jeffrey Smart

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

— Courtney Barnett

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

— Charles Tart