Artist Quotes · Page 404

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

— Patrick Kavanagh

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

“The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art…

— William Saroyan

“Art should grasp the mind the way the vagina grasps the penis-Marcel Duchamp”

— Alice Goldfarb Marquis

“She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of…

— David Foenkinos

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

— Doja Cat

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

— Robert Hass

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much…

— Edward Hopper

“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and…

— Robert Hughes

It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a…

— Banksy

I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a…

— Jack Larson

There's no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn't easy to drive around and pass…

— Big K.R.I.T

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its…

— Robert Hughes

“Is it possible to make a living by simply watching light? Monet did. Vermeer did. I believe Vincent did too. They painted…

— Terry Tempest Williams

What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am…

— Scott Kahn

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

— Alex Grey

I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the…

— Rex Orange County

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

— Travis Scott

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

— Slim Moon

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

— Paula Vogel

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

— Henry Hopper

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

— Golan Levin

“For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

— Robert Barry

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

— Rick Rubin

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

— Michelle Stuart

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel…

— Deb Caletti

“I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.

— Frank Shamrock

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

— Jeffrey Lewis

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me…

— Norbert Leo Butz

Collage is an important part of my everyday life. I always did it kind of secretly but then started my blog where…

— Laura Restrepo

“We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!”

— William T. Vollmann

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami

“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about…

— Oscar Wilde

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

— Melissa Brown

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

— Robert Genn

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

— Simon de Pury