Artist Quotes · Page 371

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into…

— Fred Tomaselli

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

— Miuccia Prada

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...

— Carl Jung

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

— Francois Pinault

All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.

— Peter Greenaway

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone…

— Ben Shahn

I'm not going to work with a company that uses my artwork, which is precious to me, and not allow me to…

— Kesh

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

— Walter Sickert

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and…

— Mary Martin

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday…

— Anonymous

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an…

— Todd Walker

I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at…

— Barry Ptolemy

I've had people say to me, "Well, how do I start collecting artworks?" Well, you start by buying. Buy what you like,…

— Larry Gagosian

There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what…

— Mark Kostabi

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

— Coventry Patmore

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be…

— Michael Connelly

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

— Yves Saint Laurent

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint:…

— Jackson Pollock

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

— Ken Danby

As an artiste, as a person who has a voice, I feel strongly about not creating anything empty.

— Arjun Mathur

The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

— Ed Askew

Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.

— Laura van den Berg

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

— Robert Hewison

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

— Pierre Alechinsky

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

— Jim Rowe

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

— Aime Cesaire

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

— Jacques Barzun

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

— Anonymous

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to…

— Phoebe Bridgers

“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”

— Toni Cade Bambara

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

— Donald Barthelme

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen…

— Don DeLillo

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

— Paul Cezanne

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.

— William Shakespeare

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

— Robert Henri

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

— Gerald Brenan

I got rid of Warlock's lightning bolt because... it was a real pain to draw.

— Jim Starlin