Artist Quotes · Page 453

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

— Tom Stoppard

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

— Gerald Stern

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

— Mark Parker

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big,…

— Gerhard Richter

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

— Eric Maisel

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

— Cheryl Strayed

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

— Ed Wood

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us…

— Bertolt Brecht

“Kyle, you are a mellow dude...You can’t be with an agitator. And that’s what she is. An agitator. She’s a Jackson Pollock…

— Genevieve Dewey

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I…

— Brad Holland

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of…

— Peter Kreeft

“Whenever the occasional doubt starts to creep into my mind about my artistic ability, I start to think about the reality of…

— V.L. Thompson

We all have little sisters and cousins who look up to us, and we see what they go through. So we have…

— Pepa

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life... and hold it fixed so that 100 years later, when…

— William Faulkner

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails…

— Jerry Saltz

“High end retouching isn’t about changing reality, it’s about presenting it at its best refined, professional, unforgettable.”

— Zarihs Zoltan

“I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.”

— Joyce Rachelle

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

— Immanuel Kant

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

— James Whistler

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be…

— Mark Bradford

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

— Winston Churchill

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

— Tania Bruguera

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art.

— George Sand

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

— David Gilmour

“The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the…

— Charles Sovek

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

— Richard Attenborough

“All art needs to be funny, sad and a little disturbing simultaneously or else it's not art.”

— Ezekiel Tyrus

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For…

— Rachel Kushner

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives…

— Amy Lowell

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist…

— Phil Daniels

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

— Elizabeth Inchbald

I think it's artist's role to give and to receive and the people to give it, hear it, vibe on it, and…

— Narada Michael Walden

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a…

— John Dyer

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

— Leonid Afremov

Art thrives on obstacles. The bigger the obstacle, the better the drama.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

— Rebecca West

“We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just...carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.”

— Sam Starbuck