Artist Quotes · Page 149

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

— David LaChapelle

It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

— Robert Hilburn

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

— JR

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

— John Ruskin

“For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary?”

— Joyce Carol Oates

A car designer is really a sculptor.

— Chris Bangle

I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.

— Chick Corea

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

— Anton Chekhov

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

— Brian McKnight

“painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature’s palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack”

— Arundhati Roy

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

— Jean Baudrillard

As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.

— Sara Genn

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

— Elfriede Jelinek

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going…

— Alessia Cara

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

— Thomas Mars

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

— Shakira

Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that…

— Elliott Hundley

When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated,…

— Gates McFadden

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a…

— Ai Weiwei

I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best…

— Uwem Akpan

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the…

— James Rosenquist

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the…

— Banksy

It's a long time coming as far as the work that I put in. Now I know that I got the stamp…

— Kendrick Lamar

I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it.…

— Mirah

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

— John Currin

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

— Skitch Henderson

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

— Katharine McPhee

“Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.”

— Richard Appignanesi

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

— John Updike

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

— Edgar Degas

God is just another artist, like me.

— Salvador Dali

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

— Domenico Dolce

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

— Richard Schmid

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

— David Hockney

“Life and Art, once entwined, can quickly become inseparable”

— David Bayles Art and Fear Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

— Oprah Winfrey

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

— Albert Einstein

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

— Jada Pinkett Smith