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Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.
— Hetti Perkins
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ...
— Robert Henri
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
— Gustave Flaubert
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
— Orhan Pamuk
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
— Robert Hughes
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
— Hans Haacke
No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.
— Robert Adams
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.
— Rachel Field
Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.
— Sandra Bowden
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
— Kiki Smith
Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.
— Ashley Ormon
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
— D.W. Winnicott
I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.
— John Baldessari
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
— Criss Jami
I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental.
— Asif Kapadia
When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
— Alex Grey
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
— T. S. Eliot
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
— Eli Broad
We will make love an art and we will love like artists.
— Marianne Williamson
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.
— Jyrki Vainonen
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
— Walter Darby Bannard
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
— Wes Nisker
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
— Jim Morrison
But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.
— William S. Burroughs
Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitude.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.
— Amit Kalantri
Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
— Don DeLillo
That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
— Yareli Arizmendi
It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country ... and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.
— Louis Comfort Tiffany
Stop following the con artists, instead become the greatest and brightest artist ever to exist and let others follow your light instead
— Yolanda De Iuliis
Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us - flesh and bone - only to be spewed out again in our own works.
— Siri Hustvedt
Love is an art and this love lacks artists.
— Javaria Waseem
That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.
— Arthur Holitscher
God and other artists are always a little obscure ...
— Oscar Wilde
I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.
— Lyor Cohen
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.
— Andrew Stanton
That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.
— Lloyd Kaufman
As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.
— Frances Stark
An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
— Jamie Wyeth
I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.
— Barry McGee
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
— George Bernard Shaw
A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
— Eric Maisel
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
— Steven Pinker
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
— Tony Kushner
The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.
— Julian Casablancas
What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.
— Dennis Quaid
I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..
— Vincent Van Gogh
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
— Alfred De Musset
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
— H.L. Mencken
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
— LeRoy Neiman
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
— Carl Jung
Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.
— Carla H. Krueger
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
— Jessye Norman
Love is an art and this world lack artists.
— Javaria Waseem
I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
— Edward Hopper
Scientists know more and more and so science advances. Artists know less and less and so art advances.
— Marty Rubin
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
— Karlie Kloss
Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
— Francisco De Goya
It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.
— Jasper Johns
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.
— Criss Jami
LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.
— A.E. Samaan
I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.
— Christie Brinkley
When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me.
— Christina Strigas
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.
— Thelma Golden
Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
— James Rosenquist
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.
— Alexander Kotov
But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
— Francis Ford Coppola
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.
— Kazimir Malevich
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman