Artist Quotes · Page 422

“Merry Patricia Wilding was sitting on a cobblestone wall, sketching three rutabagas and daydreaming about the unicorn.”

— Laura London

I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I…

— Owen Pallett

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

— Shelley Duvall

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

— Sanford Meisner

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

— Henry Miller

“For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right.”

— Ed Catmull

I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

— Lady Gaga

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

— Pierre Loti

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of…

— Keith Haring

You learn about yourself when you're collecting art. You learn what you're capable of. After all, we're not speaking about pennies-we're speaking…

— Laurence Graff

It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that…

— Clement Greenberg

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in…

— Walker Evans

“An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I…

— Madeleine L'Engle

They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV…

— Sherman Alexie

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was…

— Jeffrey Wright

Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have…

— Todd Rundgren

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

— Meryl Streep

“Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

— James Joyce

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

— Arlene Croce

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

— Natasha Lyonne

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get…

— Antonin Kratochvil

“He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the…

— Pavich Milorad

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very…

— Oliver Jeffers

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

— Doris Salcedo

I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose…

— Redfoo

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is…

— Matthew Slotover

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with…

— Liam Gillick

My favorite artist has not changed since I was five years old: Michael Jackson.

— Kemi Badenoch

Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.

— Kehinde Wiley

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

— Marcus Aurelius

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

— Lionel Trilling

“Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“While English is an international language, the Art language is the universal one.”

— Sabina Hassan

I think that putting merchandising into the hands of the artist themselves is one of the best things for the artist.

— Randall Munroe

I am a holographic representation in the third dimension of what was requested by your souls that one of your favourite artists…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

It wasn't until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine…

— Zoe Buckman

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it…

— Peter Doig

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

— Leni Riefenstahl