Artist Quotes · Page 415

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

— Allan Kaprow

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

— Eric Maisel

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

— Paul Klee

“The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all”

— Oscar Wilde

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

— Maurizio Cattelan

“We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.”

— Tori Amos

The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.

— Laurence Boldt

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a…

— Peter M. Brant

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could -…

— Jerry Saltz

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an…

— W. Earl Brown

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away…

— Confucius

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in…

— Squeak Carnwath

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the…

— Albert Camus

Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have…

— Gideon Glick

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

— Robert Graham

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.

— Ani DiFranco

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

— Jerry Saltz

The left paw has done me well over the years. I'm not a scientist, I'm a martial artist.

— Conor McGregor

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

— Ben Whishaw

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

— Danny Glover

If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us -…

— P. K. Page

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a…

— John Caudwell

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”

— Annette Messager

“All artists give birth. It's alchemy and it's really an amazing process.”

— Jewel

An artist has to know who she is and to be consistent in building her career.

— Anitta

As for today's music, Nicki Minaj is killing it. She's an amazing artist.

— Neon Hitch

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really…

— Alessia Cara

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

— Salman Rushdie

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

— Elia Kazan

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas…

— Mark Twain

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so…

— Jerry Lawler

“Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.”

— Richard Matturro

“Artists try to depict people; and people depict the artist's' conception of people.”

— Waguih Ghali

“You'll be fertilizer regardless, might as well have interesting stories for the dirt.”

— Amrit Brar

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

— Sia Furler

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

— Vanessa Paradis

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more…

— Dieter Roth