Artist Quotes · Page 396

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

— Ben Shahn

“Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that…

— Lucien Carr

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of…

— Winston Churchill

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

What am I afraid of as an artist? I guess I was scared before of just not being heard. But I'm too…

— Sabrina Claudio

“...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.”

— Samuel Lipman

Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable.

— Paul Keating

I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

— Lady Gaga

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs…

— Shana Alexander

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the…

— August Wilson

Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the…

— Antoni Tapies

I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not…

— Eve Babitz

My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour…

— Ralph Goings

The message is that if you believe in what you create, it's enjoyable and people will follow. The talented mangaka should know…

— Tite Kubo

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to…

— Ari Shapiro

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room…

— Sloane Crosley

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as…

— Yukmouth

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

— Betty Edwards

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

— Herbert Read

“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the…

— G.K. Chesterton

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a…

— Bernard Berenson

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

— Kenny Chesney

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

— Ezra Koenig

I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing…

— Brendan Gleeson

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have…

— Morgan James

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

— Vivienne Westwood

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…

— John Gardner

I'm really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.

— Rich Brian

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could…

— Damien Hirst

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

— Ben Eine

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual…

— Wes Nisker

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

— Gerhard Richter

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

— Glenn Ligon

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

— Joseph Conrad

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

— Marjane Satrapi

“I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy. I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.”

— Lana Del Rey

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

— Paul G

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

— Bruce Pavitt

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

— Dave Barry

Even as an art teacher and someone very involved in the arts, I never knew what art therapy even was.

— Karen Pence