89 Quotes About Artists

Art is risk made visible Arno Rafael Minkkinen

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

This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals and in a language that we worry we may be the only ones left caring for. Tristan Gooley

Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our unfilled longing propels us into committing senseless acts of self-sabotage and then we desperately seek redemption from our slippery selves by building monuments to the human spirit. We employ a bewildering blend of conscious and unconscious materials to construct synoptic testaments to our temporal existence. We labor on the canvas of our choosing to scrawl our inimitable mark, fanatically toiling to escape a sentence of total obliteration along with our impending mortality. . Kilroy J. Oldster

I am an art work in constant progress; I am my own canvas, my own colors, my own brushes and my own inspiration. Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Art fuels the fire inside me. Efrat Cybulkiewicz

All great talents are never found in rich exquisite locales with perfect setting that enhance their creative works, but on the contrary are found in the most obnoxious circumstances yet are unaffected by them and create masterpieces at the most unpredictable situations, just like a lotus flower blossoming in a muddy pond! Ramana Pemmaraju

If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience! Ramana Pemmaraju

If both the performer and audience are on the same plane then it's not ART but SCIENCE, for ART is a personal expression that varies from one individual to another, while SCIENCE commands uniformity & certainty! What are YOU? Ramana Pemmaraju

Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words! Ramana Pemmaraju

LABOUR is effort, while ART is effortless! What are you? Ramana Pemmaraju

An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself so completely that only his work remains! Ramana Pemmaraju

An artist adopts a radically different view regarding the importance of time than a businessperson does. Instead of perceiving time as a merchantable facet doled out incrementally according to marketplace demands, an artist portrays time as an agent of destruction. The irrevocability of time frames the human condition. Time might the medium of all human experience, but its passage obscures and eventually obliterates all human endeavors. Time unchecked leads to a blank slate of nothingness. Time’s destructive march towards meaningless is arrested through memory and art depicting humankind’s struggles and accomplishments. Kilroy J. Oldster

Some art are meant to cut shortstretching them unnecessary makes it dull. Yarro Rai

An artist is like a handicaphe needs his art to carry himself. Yarro Rai

Choose only one master – Nature. Rembrandt

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them. Nuno Roque

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop. Nuno Roque

That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love. Anuradha Bhattacharyya

All forms of art are parallel expressions. Writing is not unlike painting or other artistic endeavors. Each artistic endeavor is an expression of the mystery of the world. The job of the artist is to deepen that mystery, express reverence for the mystery of life, and explore the enigmatic aspects of human nature. Kilroy J. Oldster

I can certainly identify with The Villain. A Villain is someone who has a past, who is strongly opinionated, fearless, doesn't get intimated by anything, and went beyond suffering. It's an empowerment figure. Nuno Roque

Sometimes people can be negative, especially about my confidence. I trust myself, I refuse to obey, and I noticed there is a need to punish me for it. But haters are important because they show you you're doing something right. I'm scared of unanimity, artists who everybody likes. When you speak your mind and you're loud, you will attract negativity. But I have thick skin, I think the fact that I was severely bullied in my childhood helped me build strength and believe in my artistic vision. I deal with rejection very well. I have a lifelong vision and an unbreakable spirit. Nuno Roque

Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don't care what people think. I truly do not compromise on who I am. Nuno Roque

I'm like a circus standing on two legs. Nuno Roque

I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime. Nuno Roque

I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines. Nuno Roque

I think we live in a time where artists are very tidy and afraid of what others might think. They hesitate in expressing their views and opinions. So being original is rare. For me, it's about living the life you create for yourself, to create your kingdom. I think we should work on being our unique selves and becoming our greatest versions. I like to remind people to take the power to live their life the way they wish. Nuno Roque

I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them. Nuno Roque

For me, every week is a fashion week. Nuno Roque

My childhood was a drag show! Nuno Roque

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine. Nuno Roque

... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting. Ellie Lieberman

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate. Nuno Roque

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames. Shah Asad Rizvi

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance. Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is the timeless interpretation of life. Shah Asad Rizvi

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies. Shah Asad Rizvi

Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish. Shah Asad Rizvi

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry. Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls. Shah Asad Rizvi

Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense. Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free. Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is the ritual of immortality. Shah Asad Rizvi

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady. Shah Asad Rizvi

DANCE — Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression. Shah Asad Rizvi

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze. Shah Asad Rizvi

Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance. Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness. Shah Asad Rizvi

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance. Shah Asad Rizvi

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one. Shah Asad Rizvi

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance. Shah Asad Rizvi

If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution. Shah Asad Rizvi

When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment. Shah Asad Rizvi

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance Shah Asad Rizvi

The courage to dream, the courage to act. Lailah Gifty Akita

The priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator. Lailah Gifty Akita

A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. Overcoming fear of making an irreversible, lifetime mistake is the first step of living an artistic existence. Kilroy J. Oldster

I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative. Nuno Roque

The uniqueness of different colours represents the uniqueness of individuals! Lailah Gifty Akita

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out. Oliver Gaspirtz

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in between. Because Life is all of these things and more. It is the artist's divine purpose to reflect what Experience has shown them and others. What truly sets us apart from each other is whether or not we truly know ourselves enough to reflect objectively; but, through our own unique 'voice'. Solange Nicole

Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving. Unknown

There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may have the appearance of breaking social norms but in fact that is just the manifestation of the progress of their practice. Zeena Schreck

I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend. Nuno Roque

I love widely and deeply, the Naive sense of Primitivism I manage to project in my Art. It always gives me a sense that it is not developed or derived from anything else, and it is unaffected by objective reasoning. Very similar to my nomadic life. Efrat Cybulkiewicz

I might act like a rhinoceros, but I'm a unicorn. Nuno Roque

Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated. Nuno Roque

I paint the stuff I see when my eyes are closed Anna Asche

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. . Martha Graham

I'm a Joker. Dangerous and silly at the same time. Nuno Roque

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous! Marko Stout

Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists! Mehmet Murat Ildan

The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless Luhraw