Artist Quotes · Page 315

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

— Anonymous

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

— Edith Wharton

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

— Michael Gungor

Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity…

— Michael Craig-Martin

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

— Anonymous

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

— Jean Baudrillard

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters

— El Greco

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

— Asger Jorn

I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially…

— Reggie Watts

I would never, ever start a fight with someone after a fight. I'm a martial artist from the beginning, since I was…

— Dillon Danis

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with…

— Bertolt Brecht

What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A…

— Henri Matisse

We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling - fears, joys,…

— Dana Walden

“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change…

— Leonard Bernstein

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the…

— Jean M. Auel

As an artist I'm very aware of what I call Picasso-napkin syndrome - I've got this 20th century version of the midas…

— Grayson Perry

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and…

— Anonymous

Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.

— Guy Garvey

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

— Brian Eno

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth…

— Pablo Picasso

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

— Fred Tomaselli

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

— Robert Genn

“If she lived here, the first thing she'd do is get out her paint brush and color the world.”

— Dale Mayer

Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting.

— St. Lucia

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

— Taylor Swift

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.

— Agnes Gund

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

— Angela Davis

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

Every art form has its own beauty, but blending it with other forms in separate ways is okay.

— Hema Malini

“Will you teach me how to paint?” “Just paint.” “I’m not any good.” “Do it for therapy. You can go to art…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told…

— Erykah Badu

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

— Evan Sayet

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

— Paul Cezanne

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

— William Hazlitt

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

— Adrienne Bailon

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

— Patti Smith

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

— Austin Nichols