Art Quote by Igor Babailov

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure…

— Roger Scruton

The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do what they…

— Steven Wilson

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

— Kevin Clifton

Real talent is mixing realism with bluff. Every great artist I really respect has a certain amount of bluff; sooner or later you have…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

— Robert Genn

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

— Marina Abramovic

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

— John Edgar Park

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

— Ben Nicholson

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end.…

— Julia Marlowe

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give…

— Goapele

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life,…

— Jay-Z