Artist Quotes · Page 477

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

— Louise Bourgeois

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

— Frank Oppenheimer

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms…

— Maya Deren

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

— Anthony Burgess

“This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and…

— Tim Perkins

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

— Alice Walker

“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol”

— Patti Smith

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

— Roger Scruton

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the…

— Jane Jacobs

Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between…

— John Galsworthy

When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you…

— Jaime King

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about…

— Cate Blanchett

“As if Jari’s openness had triggered something in Aamir, the older boy also began to reminisce. “My grandfather used to paint. He…

— Bella Forrest

“Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the…

— Chaim Potok

I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found...…

— Artemisia Gentileschi

In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the…

— Dalai Lama

My essentials - besides my make-up artist - are high SPF and waterproof mascara.

— Laura Whitmore

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

— Oscar Wilde

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it.

— Anupam Roy

If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.

— Yara Shahidi

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the…

— Jose Parla

There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day,…

— Rachele Brooke Smith

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

— Philip Guston

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more…

— Darryl Anka

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That's what I've always done.

— Princess Nokia

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

— Sherwood Anderson

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

— Oscar Wilde

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

— Seth

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

— Adam Gopnik

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to…

— Nita Strauss

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your…

— Chris Brown

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

— Janet Scudder