Artist Quotes · Page 63

A heavy heart produces the finest art.

— Anonymous

The truly original artist invents his own signs.

— Henri Matisse

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

— Wendell Pierce

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

— Barnett Newman

Tupac is my favorite artist, and he had mad style.

— Lewis Hamilton

No great work of art is ever finished.

— Michelangelo

Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.

— Peter Marino

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints...

— Joni Mitchell

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

— John Banville

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

— William Morris

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or…

— David Pajo

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize…

— Carl Jung

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

— Tom Robbins

I feel a lot of hip-hop videos are all about portraying a lifestyle that the artist doesn't even live.

— Kano

Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels.

— Glenn Beck

In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time…

— Quentin Tarantino

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few…

— Henry David Thoreau

One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop,…

— Anonymous

People say that artists come and go but let me tell you I am not an artist. I am first a human…

— Dharmendra

Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere…

— Julia Marlowe

All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't…

— Diego Rivera

Early on, my way of teasing the art world was by playing at being accessible. Like making pottery: I thought people would…

— Grayson Perry

There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really…

— Gordon Raphael

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

— Amanda Seyfried

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

— Keith Haring

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

— Joseph Campbell

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

— Willa Cather

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

— Tim Burton

So must the artist do in working at the nude.

— Antonio Canova

I don't think an artist does well without limitations.

— Hillman Curtis

I don't think art is bound by language or country.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

— Hans Haacke

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

— Voltaire

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

— Margaret Cho

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

— Marge Piercy

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

— Julian Schnabel

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

— Marion Cotillard

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators…

— Igor Stravinsky