Artist Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.”
– David Byrne

“At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It’s unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.”
– David Duchovny

“In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.”
– David Hockney

“Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.”
– David Hockney

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
– Dylan Thomas

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
– Edgar Degas

“Art is not a thing, it is a way.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Art is literacy of the heart”
– Elliot Eisner

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
– Émile Zola

“Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
– Flannery O’Connor

“Art is the proper task of life. ”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It’s almost required with major artists that there’s some duality. And I’ve got duality everywhere.”
– George Michael

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
– Goethe

“Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.”
– Guillaume Apollinaire

“Creativity takes courage. ”
– Henri Matisse

“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
– Henry James

“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”
– Honore de Balzac

“Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.”
– Ice T

“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”
– J.D. Salinger

“Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?”
– Jack Kroll

“He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.”
– Jack Kroll

“I’ve never been able to say I’ve been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I’ve been influenced in some way by all of them.”
– Jack Nicholson

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.”
– James McNeil Whistler

“I want to meet a guy named Art. I’d take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.”
– Jarod Kintz, I Want

“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
– Jean Cocteau

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