Artist Quotes · Page 424

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had…

— Derek R. Audette

Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style…

— Ben Eine

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

— Mickie James

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

— Jason Momoa

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

— Juvenal

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a…

— Jeffrey Deitch

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“When Michelangelo came along a generation after the original fresco masters, he took on the almost-impossible task of linking the whole Sistine…

— Benjamin Blech

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be…

— Pablo Picasso

Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more…

— David McCullough

“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When…

— Lev Grossman

My work always comes from the same source - from movement. It doesn't necessarily come from an outside idea, though the source…

— Merce Cunningham

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at…

— Ariana Grande

“There are no two things as important to us in life and in art as being threatened and being saved. What are…

— Robert Frost

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do…

— Willem de Kooning

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

— Sophie Calle

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and…

— Andy Warhol

They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.

— Chris Van Allsburg

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

— Carroll O'Connor

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

— J. Carter Brown

“I grab the nearest can of miracle paint this guy is spazzing about and a church key from the paint desk.”

— Russ Linton

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples…

— Timothy Morton

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

— Orson Welles

I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and…

— William Webb

“Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

— Parker Posey

“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.”

— Charles Ray

“[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.”

— Neville Weston

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

— Alan Watts

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

— LeRoy Neiman

“We often walk without knowing the beautiful and the mysterious art created behind us by our shadows.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Life is a artwork. And the picture you paint is what describes who you are.

— Emanuel Sebastiao

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music -…

— Rosanne Cash

“These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell…

— John McLaughlin

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

— Amanda Palmer

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who…

— Lisa Yuskavage

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

— Philipp Otto Runge