Artist Quotes · Page 474

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

— Edith Sitwell

“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”

— William Everson

Mainly as an artist, I like to wear colors. I like to see colors, and it really helps my mood.

— Heart Evangelista

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Every artist, whether he is an artist of music, word or paint, has a signature that sets him apart.”

— Jennifer Laurens

“Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.”

— Angus Wilson

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

— Marina Abramovic

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

— Robert McKee

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who…

— Anonymous

As a matter of fact I don't know of one artist as long as I've been alive that they put in regular…

— Slaine

Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids…

— Demetri Martin

“The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if…

— Damien Hirst

“What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on…

— Jane Austen

That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would…

— Jenny Holzer

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for…

— Bertolt Brecht

“to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch

We realised that art, theatre, and music in Sarajevo were resistance at the deepest level.

— Haris Pasovic

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that…

— Jim Carrey

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

— Edgar Degas

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.

— Lisa Lopes

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

— Sammy Hagar

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art…

— John Fowles

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

— Auguste Rodin

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

— Douglas Sirk

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me…

— Chris Van Allsburg

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

— P. G. Wodehouse

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

— Emmanuelle Beart

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it…

— Dorothea Tanning

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

— Julian Schnabel

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

— Bob Ross

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

— Francoise Cachin

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

— Viola Davis

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

— Gelett Burgess

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

— Le Corbusier

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

— Dong Kingman