Artist Quotes · Page 394

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

— Arthur Wesley Dow

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit…

— Louis Riel

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

— Nate Lowman

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

— Jerry Harrison

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

— Gene Black

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

— Virgil Abloh

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

— Warren MacKenzie

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you…

— Chuck D

I feel so lucky. When an actor that has been struggling for so long makes the transition into being an actor full-time,…

— Steve Zissis

Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them…

— La'Porsha Renae

Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better…

— Brian Grazer

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll…

— Claude Monet

Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products…

— Mark Klett

The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As an actor, you just like to be able to play as much range. I just want to be invisible. I want…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

They say life is like art and the world is your canvas, whether your picture be good or bad it will always…

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

— Christopher Priest

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

— Claudia Lee

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

— Charley Pride

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of…

— Elbert Hubbard

“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”

— Clive James

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

— Hartley Coleridge

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

— Alexej von Jawlensky

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of…

— William Blake

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

— Ad Reinhardt

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

— Charlie Haden

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

— Jeff Koons

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

— Jacob Epstein

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

— Alun Hoddinott

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

— Tom Six

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

— Rumaan Alam

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

— A. Y. Jackson

“Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

— Tiko Kerr