Artist Quotes · Page 390

It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

— Kenny G

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done…

— Richard Prince

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

— Janina Gavankar

“The universe has been painting its creations with many of the same brushes.” “Do”

— Nathan Van Coops

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

— Nathan Sawaya

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

— Marcel Duchamp

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

— Vaclav Havel

I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of…

— Shepard Fairey

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite…

— Walker Percy

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its…

— Leon Trotsky

I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't…

— Shirley Manson

The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make…

— Anne Frank

Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is…

— Jason Polan

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular…

— Jon Landau

Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the…

— Jonathan Lethem

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Three erotic paintings by Isa - $ 20K; chasing said artist in Benz SLS Coupe - $ 195K; the look on her…

— Ella Dominguez

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little…

— John Banville

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life...

— Robert Henri

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

— Glenn Ligon

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

— Richard Thompson

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

— Odilon Redon

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

— Marcel Duchamp

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

— Hans Hofmann

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

— Emily Carr

I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

— Aaron Rose

To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for.

— Dee Rees

“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next…

— Ernest Grant

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

— El Greco

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

— David Cronenberg

It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

— James Bay

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

— Yann Martel

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had…

— Gauri Khan

“Artist or no-artist, I can't pass up a piece of fried chicken when I see one.”

— Jack Kerouac

Beyonce's the kind of artist where you're not gonna see it till it's right.

— Ne-Yo

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is…

— Roy Lichtenstein

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English…

— Liu Dan

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

— Joseph Conrad