Artist Quotes · Page 388

“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked…

— Christian Bobin

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

— Andre Holland

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

— Oscar Wilde

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

— Franz Werfel

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough…

— Claude Monet

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

— Robert Genn

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

I'm always trying to want to connect with fans and to connect them to each other. I mean, there's other things that…

— Allie X

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something,…

— Ice Cube

I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ…

— Anonymous

I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in…

— Terry Mosher

I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be…

— Brian Eno

I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect…

— Lena Waithe

“Life is a beautiful canvas, paint it with passion and diligence. Don't scribble on it with regrets.”

— Priyansha Vashi

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

— Kirsten Dunst

Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

— Blixa Bargeld

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American…

— Willem de Kooning

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

— Paul Gauguin

“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”

— César Vallejo

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it…

— Ray Bradbury

The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.

— Willem de Kooning

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

— David Hockney

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

— Friedrich Schiller

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose…

— Francis Bacon

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Anonymous

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

— James Dean

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

— Jackson Pollock

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of…

— Romeo Santos

“Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever.”

— Kenyon Gambier

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

— Ben Eine

I think Banksy is a very cool artist, and I respect his social messages.

— Kim Rossmo

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they…

— Julie Taymor