Artist Quotes · Page 429

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

— Dong Kingman

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

— Jim Morrison

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don't want to be known as just a 'remix artist' for the rest of my…

— Kygo

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

— Viola Davis

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

— Gelett Burgess

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I…

— Maya Lin

“The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just…

— Sloane Crosley

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way…

— Howard Hodgkin

I was taught that you can't be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. All my art is…

— Michael Horse

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out…

— Kehinde Wiley

I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her…

— Neil Gaiman

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of…

— Sol LeWitt

I've painted, but I've also done graphics since as long as I can remember. So even people with little to spend could…

— Georg Baselitz

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as…

— Kathleen Hanna

I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist.

— Hilary Hahn

Art is an infusion of inner feelings and thoughts executed in an original style that defines the artist.

— Jean Norvy

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

— Edvard Munch

Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.

— Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

— Cornel West

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic…

— Clive Bell

An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it.

— Anupam Roy

If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.

— Yara Shahidi

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the…

— Jose Parla

There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day,…

— Rachele Brooke Smith

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more…

— Darryl Anka

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

— Philip Guston

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

— Anthony Burgess

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

— Frank Oppenheimer

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms…

— Maya Deren

“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol”

— Patti Smith

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

— Roger Scruton

“This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and…

— Tim Perkins

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

— Alice Walker

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

— Oscar Wilde

My essentials - besides my make-up artist - are high SPF and waterproof mascara.

— Laura Whitmore

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

— Georgia O'Keeffe