Artist Quotes · Page 466

What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.

— Mary Gauthier

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives…

— Rajneesh

“I have always wanted my art to service my people… We have to create an art for liberation and for life”

— Elizabeth Catlett

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

— Kenneth Noland

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

— Robert Pinsky

I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

— Colin Mochrie

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

— Andre Lhote

“Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear…

— Leonora Carrington

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and…

— Robert Bresson

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a…

— Jemima Kirke

I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for…

— Liz Prince

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is…

— Augustus William Hare

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else.…

— Billy Al Bengston

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like…

— Claes Oldenburg

I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really…

— Jackson Guthy

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

— Ann Wilson

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

— Brian Michael Bendis

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about

— Julianne Moore

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the…

— Sally Mann

The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?

— Daniel Kaluuya

“Intelligent and insightful at the same time, this is one of the earliest human expressions of art.”

— Rujuta Diwekar

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

— Susan Sontag

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was…

— Arne Glimcher

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

— James Elkins

That's why art is so fantastic: It can keep being adapted to move with society's vision as well as the original.

— Rachel Zegler

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

— Andre Malraux

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

— Mark Edward

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

— Alva Noto

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

— Sarah Dessen

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

— Pierre Bonnard

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that.…

— Del Shannon

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

— Arthur Miller

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you…

— Seth Godin

What I'm realizing about myself as an artist is that I'm not about the glitz and the glam - I don't scream…

— Lola Young

“The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")”

— Blaise Cendrars

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

— Jerry Saltz

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

— Eddy Grant

Life is pure adventure & the sooner we realize that, the quicker we ll be able to treat life as art

— Anonymous