Artist Quotes · Page 468

“A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.”

— Amit Kalantri

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for…

— Jacques Maritain

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

— Auguste Rodin

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval…

— Goldwin Smith

I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.

— Dries van Noten

That's how I started. I moved to New York City, and I was a makeup artist.

— Christian Siriano

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

— Kiki Smith

“If there was one great benefit to the whole practice of art, it was to focus him in the “now,” where the…

— Christina McKenna

I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All…

— Roy Lichtenstein

My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and…

— Steve Lillywhite

When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college,…

— Caterina Fake

“Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes…

— Kristine Stiles

I'm not a huge, popular artist, but I feel like one when I'm in the studio. But it's never taking away from…

— Weyes Blood

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed...…

— Henri Matisse

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

“Like an impressionist’s stroke on a canvas, up-close formed a new image. This image was vibrant and alive. This image was not…

— Ava Harrison

I am a comedian. I do feel I have to put my experience on a public stage. As an artist, that's what…

— David Baddiel

“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

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— Anonymous

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

— Guy de Maupassant

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

— Milton Glaser

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

— Elliot W. Eisner

One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not…

— Karyn Kusama

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

— Billy Childish

“If you’re to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.”

— Val Uchendu

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

— Shahzia Sikander

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated.…

— Josh Smith

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

— John Hurt

CrossFit is how I found the artist who tattooed my chest, how I was able to travel across the world, and how…

— Mat Fraser

I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

— Marco Brambilla

If I don't have an erection when I'm doing a drawing, I know it's no good.

— Tom of Finland

I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

— Octavia Spencer

“It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.”

— Solange nicole

We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress.

— Brie Bella

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

— James Rosenquist

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

— Yelawolf