Artist Quotes · Page 452

“there is an artist in everyone. A dream is, after all, a little work of art, and there are new dreams every…

— Jostein Gaarder

I've got a pot in my studio that is just a bitter rant against the art world. I call it my Dorian…

— Grayson Perry

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the…

— Victor Hugo

When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.

— David Berman

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of…

— Robert Regis Dvorak

“Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for ‘art,’ because for Indians everything is art.”

— Huston Smith

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.

— Paloma Picasso

I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day.…

— Kehinde Wiley

I didn't go to school for illustration. I did larger pieces, mostly drawings and paintings, and minored in video, but when I…

— Abbi Jacobson

Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to…

— Joshua Reynolds

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he…

— Albert Camus

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all…

— Ellen Terry

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story.…

— Neil Farber

I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows…

— John Waters

Vulnerability of artists is definitely what makes organizations like PEN necessary because, as I tried to argue, the actual work that writers…

— Salman Rushdie

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

— Robert Engman

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I…

— Robin Thicke

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

— Rita Mae Brown

Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that…

— Carl Gardner

“Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and…

— Jim Morrison

“remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by…

— Sarah J. Maas

There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.

— Willard Wigan

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

— Daniel H. Pink

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

— Robert Barry

My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put…

— Sherilyn Fenn

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

— Tom Robbins

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

— Carlisle Floyd

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship…

— Henri Matisse

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

— Robert Schumann

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations?”

— James David Lewis-Williams

I'm comfortable in general - not just comfortable as an artist, but in my skin.

— Kodie Shane

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was…

— Signe Baumane

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I…

— Angela Cartwright

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

— Abbi Jacobson

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

— James L. Dolan

I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my…

— David Archuleta