Artist Quotes · Page 317

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t…

— Marcel Duchamp

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw…

— Jim Lee

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

— Jean-Francois Millet

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

— Jerry Saltz

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

— Richard Avedon

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as…

— Barbara Kruger

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

— Oscar Wilde

“The artist and the fundamentalist arise from societies at differing stages of development. The artist is the advanced model. His culture possesses…

— Steven Pressfield

When people ask me now about why I make art, I think that's what I'm seeking - a moment of transcendence with…

— Fernando Mastrangelo

Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light…

— Jo Baer

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any…

— Amanda Palmer

Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a…

— Allan Kaprow

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or…

— Lee Krasner

I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a…

— Nicole Beharie

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You…

— Cynthia Weil

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

— Robert Smithson

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn…

— Neil Welliver

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

— Edvard Munch

When I think real hard about radio or this and that, I just see myself as an artist who's going to stand…

— Rev. Run

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one…

— Marjane Satrapi

An artist should appreciate anybody that appreciates their art because really bro, without people I can't do anything.

— Lil B

There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to…

— Theaster Gates

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.

— Elvis Mitchell

I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.

— GG Allin

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

— Salvador Dali

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

— Damien Hirst

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

— Daniel Barenboim

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

— Gustave Courbet

As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in…

— Sam Hunt

I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to…

— Gavin DeGraw

As far as stucco repairs, it's definitely more of an art than a science.

— Bryan Baeumler

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

— Charles Peguy

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

— Lemn Sissay

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

— Ryan McGinley

I think it is so great when artists use their voice to help other people and it is really great to be…

— Orianthi

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

— Robert Henri

“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

— Dwight Yoakam

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

— Keaton Stromberg