Artist Quotes · Page 355

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

— Alan Moore

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

— Johan Renck

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

— George Bernard Shaw

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

— Drake

Art is coming face to face with yourself. That's what's wrong with Benton. He came face to face with Michelangelo-- and he…

— Jackson Pollock

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

— Artie Shaw

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

— Rhys Ifans

I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I…

— Claes Oldenburg

Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and…

— Jane Hirshfield

The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a…

— Joseph Beuys

A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be… The…

— Sarah Bernhardt

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical…

— Paul Klee

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging…

— Billy Childish

I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university,…

— Tom Robbins

I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related,…

— Sasha Pivovarova

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and…

— Asger Jorn

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

— Stephen Gardiner

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

— Kate Nash

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

— Bill Griffith

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

— Louise Wilder

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own…

— Mia Wasikowska

I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience.

— Puneet Issar

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

— Lynn Nottage

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

— Anonymous

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize…

— Maurice Blondel

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

— Tracey Moffatt

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear…

— Paul Klee

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

— Willem de Kooning

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

— Russell Simmons

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

— Vincent Van Gogh

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that…

— Seth Godin

When I was in art school, I worried that being a painter seemed like it could be an elusive dream, and fashion…

— Cynthia Rowley

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

— Vincent Van Gogh

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

— Tori Amos

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

— Janet Fish