Artist Quotes · Page 348

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

— Eric Hoffer

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

— Fernando Pessoa

I do Xeroxes of my past collections and then I draw over them to see where I'll go next.

— Rick Owens

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

— Romeo Santos

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

— Brandon Boyd

I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in…

— Sean William Scott

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts…

— Barbara Jordan

It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as…

— Simon Pegg

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being…

— George Saunders

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the…

— Anonymous

You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it…

— Pablo Picasso

“He needed more than vague explanations and abstract ideas—but those were the very soul of art. If you could explain something perfectly,…

— Brandon Sanderson

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…

— Roger Scruton

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

— Steven Pressfield

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

— John Constable

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

— John Feldmann

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

— Paul Laseau

I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference.

— India Arie

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you…

— Nick Bantock

Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period…

— Claudia Jessie

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

— Dizzee Rascal

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

— Oscar Wilde

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

— Rudolf Nureyev

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your…

— N. K. Jemisin

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

— Val Kilmer

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

— Dave Barry

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

— David Hockney

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining,…

— Willa Cather

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I…

— Arshile Gorky

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...

— Leon Battista Alberti