Artist Quotes · Page 484

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

— Daniel Bell

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

— Nicholas Meyer

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

— Ed Harris

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I…

— Jackson Pollock

My drawings may not be so good but they are pretty cool comment please and thank you

— Brianna Ramos

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

— Adrienne Monnier

“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the…

— Stanisław Lem

“People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to…

— Nikki Rowe

It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something…

— Philip Guston

A lot of artists think that to be current, you have to follow what's out there and do something that's so unlike…

— Gza

“I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.…

— Newt Gingrich

The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie…

— Bat for Lashes

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I…

— Agnes Varda

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going…

— Anonymous

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

— Dave Hickey

There is an indefinable quality possessed by some artists. You simply can't explain it.

— Vera-Ellen

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he…

— Langston Hughes

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

— Deana Carter

I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

— Ira Sachs

“The aesthetic moment constitutes this deep rapport between subject and object”

— Christopher Bollas

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

— Cardi B

“How mournful can be the words of an artist, concealed among the beggars and the roses?”

— Joso Skarica

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

— Tommy Chong

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

— Anish Kapoor

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

— David Hockney

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand…

— Adam West

“Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.”

— Neil Gaiman

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

— Gustave Courbet

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.

— David Altmejd

I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better…

— Kid Ink

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop…

— Ne-Yo

Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.

— Lord Chesterfield

Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

— Pope John Paul II