Artist Quotes · Page 143

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

— Mabel

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

— Cyril Connolly

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

— Jonas Mekas

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

— James Lee Burke

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

— Seth Godin

The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.

— Leonardo Drew

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

— Kaytranada

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

— Swami Vivekananda

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

— Henry James

My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.

— Shaggy

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art…

— Aden Young

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

— Oscar Wilde

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

— Andrej Pejic

The same person is coming through in a different medium… My art is simple, direct and definite.

— Grace Slick

I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to…

— Carrie Brownstein

I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.

— Raza Murad

I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it…

— Olly Murs

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his…

— J.D. Salinger

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all…

— Genesis P-Orridge

I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like…

— Charles Kelley

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the…

— Albert Camus

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes…

— Bella Thorne

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to…

— Orlando Bloom

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

— Gustave Flaubert

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.

— Cecily Strong

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If something sticks with me for a long time, it goes into a painting.

— Glenn Ligon

Christians have no idea how to deal with art.

— Lecrae

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

— Pauline Kael

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

— Claude Monet

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

— Andre Malraux

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

— Oscar Wilde

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

— Ana Tzarev

“Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.”

— Alan Dapre

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

— Christo

“Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.”

— M.B. Dallocchio

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

— Eli Broad

My artist name is actually my real name - Denzel Curry.

— Denzel Curry

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

— Yoko Ono