Artist Quotes · Page 321

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

— Ai Weiwei

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

— Robert Hughes

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

— Willa Cather

My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.

— Luc Besson

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an…

— Eric Maisel

I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.

— Du Yun

Woah, all these broken hearts on that pole, Man if pole dancers are art you know how many fuckin artists I know.

— Drake

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments…

— Leo Strauss

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife…

— Ben Shahn

I'm not really biased towards any medium, you know. What's important to me...obviously, you have to do some job to help you…

— Matthew Bomer

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work…

— Joseph Kosuth

Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's…

— Kehinde Wiley

I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint,…

— Gerhard Richter

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art.…

— Jennifer Egan

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a…

— Ziggy Marley

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer…

— Jeff Koons

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

— Eugene Delacroix

I have always wanted to make art that I thought was a conversation starter.

— Ariana DeBose

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

— Mae Jemison

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

— Alexander Stoddart

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own…

— Giacomo Leopardi

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

— Edvard Munch

Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.

— Jonny Lang

The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.

— Frederick Lenz

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

— Robert Genn

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us…

— Pharrell Williams

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

— Jane Alexander

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

— Johan Huizinga

“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might…

— Chaim Potok

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about…

— William Faulkner

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

— Theophile Gautier

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

— Damien Hirst

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

— Robert Henri

It is my hope that visitors, artists, and students from around the world will experience all that MoMA has to offer for…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

— Sol LeWitt

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

— Wanda Koop

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

— Dan Mangan

“I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.”

— Jill Telford

Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.

— Zhang Xiaogang

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

— Mason Cooley