Artist Quotes · Page 339

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

— Patrick Kavanagh

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and…

— Robert Henri

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

— Maria Shriver

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

— Anonymous

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

— Duff McKagan

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

— Ezra Pound

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot…

— Joseph Joubert

I think when your confidence is still growing as a young artist, your capacity for generosity and partnership can be hindered, probably…

— Asher Keddie

“I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, “You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers…

— B.E. Scully

Britney's a very beautiful human being. After I worked with her, I realized that there was a reason why she was the…

— Zoe Saldana

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous…

— Wade Guyton

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely…

— Anonymous

“Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities…

— George Orwell

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step…

— Charlotte Moss

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

— Fred Tomaselli

“The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What we do with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.”

— Helen Maryles Shankman

I could have $15 million in the bank right now, and that doesn't mean I'd stop trying to be a better artist.…

— Nav

For me, I think of 'Dope' as an album. There may be a love song and there may be a party song,…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for…

— Seth Godin

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

— N. T. Wright

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also…

— Jerry Saltz

“Go out and support the arts in your towns and neighborhoods. You strengthen humanity each time...in the process.”

— Timothy Pina

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

— Jeff Koons

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

— Natalia Kills

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

— Mark Rothko

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

— Donald Judd

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

— Carl Andre

“We are but masterpieces waiting to happen, searching for our inspiration.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just…

— Alessia Cara

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

— Scott Kahn

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.

— Noelle Stevenson

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

— Karen Kain

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

— Moby

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

— Flume

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

— Tanya Saracho

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

— Marko Djurdjevic

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

— Peggy Guggenheim