Artist Quotes · Page 479

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

— Gerard Malanga

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought…

— Vidya Balan

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

— Paula Scher

I don't know if I am confident about my art, but I certainly am committed to it.

— Victor Banerjee

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

— Chris Hedges

“While English is an international language, the Art language is the universal one.”

— Sabina Hassan

I think that putting merchandising into the hands of the artist themselves is one of the best things for the artist.

— Randall Munroe

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

— Lionel Trilling

When I'm drawing a bottle or a town or a market, I transport myself there. So I start drawing everything that I'm…

— Sergio Aragones

I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a…

— Daniel Cormier

If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would…

— John Daido Loori

My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings…

— Joan Mitchell

For April Fools Day, someone played a really cruel joke on me. They stole ALL my mirrors and I had to go…

— James Franco

I think festivals are way more easygoing than back-to-back tours are. 'Cause for me, when you get to go to a festival,…

— Zella Day

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a…

— Anton Chekhov

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely,…

— William McFee

“Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it…

— Peter Doig

I am a holographic representation in the third dimension of what was requested by your souls that one of your favourite artists…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

It wasn't until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine…

— Zoe Buckman

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

— Leni Riefenstahl

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

— Dennis Hopper

I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.

— Joe Bradley

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

— Dan Thompson

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very…

— Oliver Jeffers

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

— Doris Salcedo

I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose…

— Redfoo

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is…

— Matthew Slotover

Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.

— Kehinde Wiley

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

— Marcus Aurelius

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with…

— Liam Gillick

My favorite artist has not changed since I was five years old: Michael Jackson.

— Kemi Badenoch

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

— Pierre Loti

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

— Meryl Streep

“Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

— James Joyce

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

— Arlene Croce

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

— Natasha Lyonne

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get…

— Antonin Kratochvil