Artist Quotes · Page 385

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to…

— No I.D

“There is no “right” way to make art. The only wrong is in not trying, not doing.”

— Anonymous

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

— Jane Seymour

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to…

— Immortal Technique

I've argued for a much less instrumentalist politicized approach, freeing up the arts and enabling them to deliver high-quality projects.

— Munira Mirza

“good art illustrates anything at all, it’s likely to be a story you didn’t even know needed telling.”

— David Salle

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying…

— Philip Guston

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art…

— Carl Andre

You could be the sexiest woman in the world, and if you can't sing, if you're not an artist and you can't…

— Maria Brink

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability…

— Nipsey Hussle

I've been lucky enough to work with a make-up artist, Joel Harlow, who you can throw anything at. I said, "Joel, I…

— Johnny Depp

The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception.…

— Alex Grey

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time…

— Georg Baselitz

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song…

— Benny Blanco

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

— Tom Wolfe

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius…

— Kelsey Grammer

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

— Roselee Goldberg

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

— Robert Henri

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it…

— Brooks Atkinson

I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

— Peter S. Beagle

“A car crash could be considered art, and I’d like to install one in a museum. Helmets would be sold at the…

— Jarod Kintz

“...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.”

— William H. Gass

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the…

— Julius Lester

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and…

— Romare Bearden

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

— George Clooney

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

— Ma Yansong

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

— Luis Fonsi

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

— Fela Kuti

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

— Oscar Wilde

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

— David Hockney

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

— Eli Broad

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

— Vik Muniz

It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

— Hilary Swank

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

— Harvey Fierstein

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

— Floyd Cooper

It's very hard for an artist to negotiate their fees. My job is to act; my manager's job should be to handle…

— Mahira Khan