Artist Quotes · Page 341

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

— Robert Barry

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

— Henry Hopper

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

— Golan Levin

“I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

— Jeffrey Lewis

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.

— Frank Shamrock

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel…

— Deb Caletti

All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is…

— William Butler Yeats

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up…

— Glenn Frey

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you…

— Danger Mouse

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that…

— Kurt Wagner

“The data on the economic utility of artists is really, really strong. Artists and entrepreneurs are the same people...and of course entrepreneurs…

— Jordan Peterson

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone…

— Charlie Kaufman

Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort…

— Felix Mendelssohn

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps…

— Adam Gopnik

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

“The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art…

— William Saroyan

“Art should grasp the mind the way the vagina grasps the penis-Marcel Duchamp”

— Alice Goldfarb Marquis

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

— Doja Cat

“She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of…

— David Foenkinos

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

— Alex Grey

I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the…

— Rex Orange County

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

— Robert Hass

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

“The truth is, the more one knows about Art, the more one values Entertainment.”

— Jessica Zafra

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

— Trixie Mattel

“There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art.”

— Magaret Mitchell

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

— Martin Firrell

I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's…

— Max Martin

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

— Terry Pratchett

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

— Paul Klee

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

— Tom Wolfe

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

— Mary Baker Eddy

It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in…

— Claudia Rankine

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

— Abraham Lincoln

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be…

— Christopher Willard

My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.

— Ezra Furman

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love…

— Sean Scully