Artist Quotes · Page 334

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

— Edward Albee

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

— Tracey Emin

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

— Stockard Channing

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where…

— Romare Bearden

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

— Anonymous

I know how to lead a room, but I also know how to take direction and be a contributor as an artist.

— Colman Domingo

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or…

— Gerhard Richter

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton…

— Sara Bareilles

No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums…

— Marc Chagall

Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from…

— John Huston

In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone…

— Kina Grannis

If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous…

— Coco Rocha

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your…

— Zhang Xiaogang

What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity…

— Claire Vaye Watkins

The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher…

— Beth Hart

“To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint. ”

— Leon Cooper

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

— Wendell Pierce

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

— Michel de Montaigne

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

— Janet Fitch

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the…

— Akira Toriyama

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

— Pierre Schaeffer

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

— Eudora Welty

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.

— Zack Snyder

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

— James Surowiecki

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

— Paul Klee

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

— Meher Baba

That's what you want to do as an actor and as an artist: move an audience.

— Michael McElhatton

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

— Anne Clark

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

— Jeff Dunham

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

— Matthew Collings

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think that BENEE definitely has this newfound confidence in me where I love to do whatever I want and have fun…

— Benee

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

— Egon Friedell

Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

— Larry Gagosian

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

— Eric Maisel

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

— Petra Collins

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

— Jason Momoa

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

— Eric Maisel