Artist Quotes · Page 90

What is this, an audience or an oil painting?

— Anonymous

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

— Govinda

Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art.

— Bob Marley

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

— Marcel Proust

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

— Remy de Gourmont

His art is the health of the artist.

— Harold Clurman

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

— Bruce Lee

“I am about art here, not simple reproduction.”

— David Foster Wallace

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

— Honore de Balzac

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

— Nikki Giovanni

I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

— Oscar Wilde

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in…

— Rachel Cusk

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

— Itzhak Perlman

That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in…

— Tracy Chapman

I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a…

— Harold Town

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As…

— Mat Kearney

It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my…

— Allison Tolman

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist…

— Clement Greenberg

“He works in profanity the way another artist might work in watercolors, each word carrying various hues and subtleties not available to…

— Mark Schweizer

If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested…

— Bruce Dern

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

— Rebecca Horn

“There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark”

— Dev

Where the material ends, art begins.

— Etienne Hajdu

“Is not one’s art made out of the struggle in one’s soul?”

— Orna Ross

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

— Chuck Jones

Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.

— Robert Venosa

“All bad art is the result of good intentions.”

— Oscar Wilde

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

— Eudora Welty

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

— Robert Genn

The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

— Anagarika Govinda

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

— Wood Harris

True art tries not to attract attentionin order to be noticed.

— José Bergamín (1895â1983

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

— Upasana Singh

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

— Yoko Ono

Paint what you see, not what you know.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

All creation is in the art of seeing.

— John Berger