Artist Quotes · Page 378

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

— Arshile Gorky

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

— Anton Chekhov

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

— Nicole Krauss

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

— John Locke

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

— Matthew Collings

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

— David Mamet

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

— M. Shadows

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because…

— Patti Smith

I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last…

— Maximilian Schell

A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more…

— Steven Knight

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint,…

— Nick Cave

I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my…

— Guillermo del Toro

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist…

— Garry Shandling

We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been…

— Ellen Dissanayake

I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people.

— Neal Adams

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and…

— Erich Fromm

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able…

— Jan Brett

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

— Arthur Miller

I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.

— J.I.D

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the…

— Oscar Wilde

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits…

— Olafur Eliasson

It wasn't a conscious decision to be bold or anything. It all depends on how different artists envision me.

— Amrita Rao

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

— Oscar Wilde

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without…

— John French Sloan

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And…

— Larry Sanders

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

— Hugh Walpole

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and…

— Jack Kirby

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

— Woody Allen

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

— Ice T

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.

— Devendra Banhart

“Art school is a small island of acceptance in a vast sea of disinterest.”

— Ted Orland

I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine.

— Clairo

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

— Matthew Collings

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a…

— Christopher Lasch

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

— Jerry Saltz

A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

— Barry Blitt