Artist Quotes · Page 347

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

— Donatella Versace

Sometimes as an artist you don't want to be an entertainer. You want to offend people and inspire them and that's not…

— Lacey Sturm

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves…

— Asger Jorn

“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

— James Baldwin

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

“Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.”

— Fernando Pessoa

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop…

— John Currin

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

— Henri Matisse

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times…

— Dana Schutz

When you're, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don't really take the time…

— SZA

What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It…

— Rose Byrne

And I do think that good art - the art that tends to last - is that art that hits human beings…

— Laura Belem

School, for me, was a really, genuinely hard thing. It was hard because l am an artist. You can't send an artist…

— Bibi Bourelly

There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while.…

— Gian Lorenzo Bernini

I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is…

— Carmen Ejogo

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it -…

— Robert Motherwell

“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.”

— Laura Chouette

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

— Black Thought

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

— Daveed Diggs

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

— Paula Cole

“When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to…

— Ingo F. Walther

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory…

— Leonard Bernstein

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

— Susan Sontag

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

“After all, a love of art is a fine thing for a young boy, but art is long—and life can be pretty…

— Vincent Price

“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?”

— Donna Tartt

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To me, the making of art and experiences around that are the biggest part to me.

— Alison Sudol

That's why I try to stay away from the big-name producers, so I can prove that it's not about the producer, it's…

— Sisqo

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it…

— Pierre Berge

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

— William James

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

— Jim Morrison

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

— Edgar Degas

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.

— Haris Pasovic