Artist Quotes · Page 356

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses…

— Francis Bacon

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

— Masi Oka

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little…

— Laurence Olivier

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

— Bernard Berenson

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good…

— Neil Gaiman

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality…

— Weyes Blood

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that…

— Odilon Redon

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but…

— Betty Dodson

I'm listening to Spotify all the time and pulling in different things. I might find an artist or a song that I…

— Greg Kurstin

“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his…

— G.K. Chesterton

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for…

— Tracey Emin

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about…

— Laurie Simmons

“The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.”

— Tom Robbins

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

— Anonymous

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

— Richard MacDonald

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

— Melvin Glover

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the…

— Michael Craig-Martin

“Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.”

— Angelica Hopes

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it…

— Pablo Picasso

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

— Blake Shelton

Artists tend to get this thing called demo-itis, and I'm extremely guilty of that.

— Ari Lennox

A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact…

— R. B. Kitaj

I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.

— Charli XCX

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

— Uta Hagen

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

— Mary Oliver

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists,…

— Manning Marable

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

— Jeff Koons

My big thing is that nobody is involved in my artistic creations and not putting their hands and their ideas into that.

— Justin Nozuka

I often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.

— Fahadh Faasil

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is,…

— H. L. Mencken

“Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred…

— Victor Hugo

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

— Andrew Wyeth

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

— Carl Jung

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

— Gary Holland

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

— Christo