Artist Quotes · Page 350

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

— Alexej von Jawlensky

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

— Claudia Lee

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

— Charley Pride

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

— Ad Reinhardt

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

— Charlie Haden

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of…

— William Blake

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a…

— Serj Tankian

“Let’s start with Michelangelo’s predecessors. What did they want the chapel to say, and what relevance, if any, do these ideas still…

— Benjamin Blech

These kids will make you cry, laugh... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a…

— Clinton D. Powell

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is…

— Thomas Cole

Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all…

— Lauren Oliver

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is…

— Christina Stead

While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves…

— Jerry Saltz

“Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live,…

— Angela Davis

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

— Tom Six

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

— Rumaan Alam

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

— Jeff Koons

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

— Jacob Epstein

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

— Alun Hoddinott

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

— Nate Lowman

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

— Arthur Wesley Dow

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit…

— Louis Riel

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

— Jerry Harrison

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

— Gene Black

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

They say life is like art and the world is your canvas, whether your picture be good or bad it will always…

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

— Christopher Priest

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

— Warren MacKenzie

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

— Virgil Abloh

You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your…

— Jill Eikenberry

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

— Robert Genn

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's…

— Brynn Cartelli

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

— Steve Miller

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone…

— Bill Griffith