Artist Quotes · Page 410

Art is a creative outlet and necessary for people involved in creativity.

— Shefali Shah

A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.

— William P. Perry

“If art's a seismographic project, when that project’s met with miscomprehension, failure must become the subject too.”

— Chris Kraus

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”

— Paul Valéry

I really believe that every character comes from the well of the artist.

— Melora Hardin

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

— Theophile Gautier

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood…

— Lodovico Dolce

“None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God…

— Pope John Paul II

I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up,…

— Lisa Marie Presley

Acting is really creative, and there's artistry to it, but I don't think that just because you're an actor, you're an artist.…

— Noah Reid

It is only by loving nature, and going to her for everything, that good work can be done; but then we must…

— Henry Peach Robinson

My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend…

— George Grosz

Much like every artist or every creator, I got into comics as a kid, and the most important thing was the 'bang…

— Brian Stelfreeze

In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Michelangelo said that all he did was see the statue inside the block of marble and carve away the excess stone until…

— Pedro Domingos

I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but…

— Rafael Casal

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

— Michael Gungor

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

— Robert Breault

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

— Stevie Smith

Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.

— Bernice King

I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.

— Theaster Gates

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

— Nicholas Meyer

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get…

— Ryan McGinley

Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel, Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table.

— GZA

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different…

— Charles Saatchi

It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

— Frankie J. Grande

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be…

— Lewis Black

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

— H. L. Mencken

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman,…

— Genesis P-Orridge

My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'

— Jan Vogler

I'm someone who lives with the work of artists I've been lucky enough to know or trade with.

— Zoe Buckman

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could…

— John Berger

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to…

— Mary Cassatt

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can…

— Chuck Close

“I’ve come to wonder whether artists in particular seek out hard times the way flowers turn their faces toward the sun.”

— Therese Anne Fowler

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

— Albert Einstein

I can't focus on a specific artistic medium for too long, or else there's too much pressure.

— Sophie Thatcher

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

— Auguste Rodin