Artist Quotes · Page 376

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing… Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

— Todd Haynes

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

I really enjoy house painting - especially the trim work. People think I'm crazy, but it's more fun than using the roller…

— James Doohan

“Life is like an immersive art experience. We live in the art that we create, that is painted by our words and…

— Natalia Beshqoy

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once…

— Pablo Picasso

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention…

— Jean Sibelius

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in…

— Stephen Beal

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me.…

— James Cromwell

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them…

— Alton Tobey

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community,…

— Gil Scott-Heron

If I was stuck on an island with one artist's discography, it'd probably be Jay-Z's. It would keep me entertained and it…

— Tristan Thompson

Ill draw you a picture, a picture with a twist. Ill draw it with a razor blade. Ill draw it on my…

— Amber

“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.”

— Matthew Gallaway

I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.

— Samoa Joe

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method…

— Claude Monet

No artist gets work through an agency and it's only working artists who keep getting more work.

— Sana Khan

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest…

— Thomas King

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the…

— Common

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”

— Steven Magee

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

— Dasha Zhukova

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

— Henri Matisse

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

— Antony Gormley

“O you who honor art and science both, who are these souls whose dignity has kept their way of being, separate from…

— Dante Canto IV Inferno

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

— Mike Svob

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

— Brandi Carlile

The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.

— Armand Trousseau

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and…

— Ellsworth Kelly

There's a kind of passionate expression in all my pieces. It's just that the nature of the expression takes different forms.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

— Peter Max

“To visit a museum is fine, to be a museum piece is terrible! - Gioconda and Si-Ya-U ”

— Nâzım Hikmet

“Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, "once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.”

— Charles Williams

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

— Chantal Joffe

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

— Bill Ayers

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow…

— Talib Kweli

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good…

— Josh Peck