Artist Quotes · Page 413

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be…

— Oscar Wilde

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which…

— Brooks Atkinson

“There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be…

— Ron Brackin

I want to be more than just an artist and be a people's person and do a lot of stuff for people.

— Stefflon Don

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward…

— Eric Kandel

The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.

— Willa Cather

“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.”

— Lisa Cron

It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you…

— Tom T. Hall

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what…

— China Chow

McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and…

— Chuck D

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they…

— Mordicai Gerstein

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in…

— Patti Smith

I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of…

— Martine Syms

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the…

— Emil Nolde

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

— Lawrence Weiner

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

— Vanna Bonta

Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.

— Evelyn De Morgan

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

“Van Gogh, Modigliani, Hiroshige, etc., didn’t know merde about yachts, 8-star hotels, infinite pools, private jets...”

— Alexander Akyna

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

— Barnett Newman

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

— Gustave Flaubert

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

— George Lucas

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

— Peggy Guggenheim

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

— Joseph Raffael

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made…

— David Dobrik

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move…

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not…

— Neil Gaiman

“Let us paint depth, joy, and happiness onto the canvas of our lives, for it is a vital and gratifying endeavor. (Painting…

— Erik Pevernagie

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

— Irving Stone

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

— Anne Bradstreet

“Before you paint someone poorly, check the brush — it may be carrying the colors of your own reflection.”

— Charmaine J Forde

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing…

— Thomas Mann

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do…

— Robert Barry

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves…

— Shawn Colvin

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

— Henri Matisse

I'm a Baha'i; we really believe in Baha'i faith that our work has to be our service, especially in the arts.

— Justin Baldoni