Artist Quotes · Page 462

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

— Leland Bell

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

— Kreesha Turner

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

— Sara Genn

Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

— Marge Piercy

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists,…

— Len Wein

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

— Andrew Hoberek

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

— Charles R. Jackson

I listen to 'This American Life,' 'Serial,' 'S-Town,' 'Feast of Fun.' I listened to 'What's the Tee?' And that has really helped…

— Bob the Drag Queen

Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the…

— Richard Cabral

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that…

— Federico Fellini

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature…

— Joshua Reynolds

I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you…

— William Katt

Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in…

— Terrence Rafferty

Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according…

— Camille Pissarro

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is…

— Gerhard Richter

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

— Teller

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

— Seth Godin

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

— Taylor Swift

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

— Chris Jordan

“A wall was slowly being constructed between art and science, a wall that still stands today.”

— Laura J. Snyder

Stealing Chanel' was very different for me as an artist. I had to embrace and expose my vulnerabilities, instead of manifesting a…

— Lydia Hearst

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same…

— Warren MacKenzie

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos…

— Rowan Williams

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant…

— Edwidge Danticat

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

— Jean Tinguely

Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

— Multatuli

I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.

— Zedd

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

— Alfred Stieglitz

One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness…

— Mark Rothko

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

— Denise Levertov

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

— Boris Pasternak

I'm just trying to get better as an artist and as a human being. I feel like that's mad important.

— Cordae

I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new…

— Jay IDK

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

— Margaret Fuller