Artist Quotes · Page 377

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

— Chris Zylka

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

— Chuck D

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

— Robert Genn

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could…

— Herbert Marcuse

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

— Claude Monet

“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.”

— Jean Lescure

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

— Vivek Shraya

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses -…

— Katherine Dunn

It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be…

— J. E. H. MacDonald

I will fall on my face sometimes And I can't color inside the lines 'Cause I'm perfectly incomplete I'm still working on…

— Jessie J

Traffic' was an album that had a significant amount of songs. It was not complete and I felt didn't fully represent me…

— Vic Mensa

Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more full filled person than they can ever be because theyre caught up in…

— Anonymous

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I…

— Baron Vaughn

I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it…

— Marissa Nadler

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

— Bono

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting…

— Martha Graham

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

— Kerry James Marshall

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

— Jeanette Winterson

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to…

— Renata Adler

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

— John Maeda

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a…

— Walter Darby Bannard

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

— Winslow Homer

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and…

— Shirley Eaton

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

— Childe Hassam

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

— Walter Gropius

I fight for whatever I believe in! I've learned to trust myself. I went from a being a rapper to an artist.

— Tierra Whack

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

— Steve Earle

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on…

— Claes Oldenburg

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the…

— Dennis Quaid

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

— Vikas Swarup

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow…

— Andre Gide

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

— Hetti Perkins

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

— Franz Marc