Artist Quotes · Page 373

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

— Larry Wall

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

— Odilon Redon

I started out being a cartoonist at school, but I went to CalArts to study.

— Butch Hartman

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on…

— Grandma Moses

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

— Cam Gigandet

Nothing frustrates me about the art world. It is a lovely place. There are many daft things that amuse me about it…

— Grayson Perry

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

— Tom Weston-Jones

In life, we have two segments: arts and science. We need science to make our lives easier. But what do we live…

— Pankaj Tripathi

“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling…

— K. Flay

For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no…

— Damien Hirst

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the…

— Clint Eastwood

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from…

— Olivia Williams

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and…

— Joseph Addison

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of…

— Zadie Smith

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

— Talib Kweli

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

— Robert Motherwell

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior…

— Fernando Pessoa

“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.”

— Robert Rauschenberg

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

— Frank Ocean

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

— Lewis Mumford

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

— Simon Cowell

After giving up being a session/touring drummer I decided to pursue this crazy dream I had of being a solo artist.

— G Flip

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

— Andre Gide

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

— Norman Granz

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

— Talib Kweli

I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

— Mohsin Hamid

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

— Henri Matisse

“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.”

— Edmund Wilson

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

— Michelle Dean

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

— Domenico Gnoli

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

— Eric Gibbons

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

— Mary Gauthier

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

— Camille Henrot

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

— David Mamet

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to…

— Mika

“Just as art is art regardless of the colors, a human being is so regardless of race.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

— Peter Sunde