Artist Quotes · Page 158

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

— Kat Graham

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

— will.i.am

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

— David Cronenberg

I want to be a manager for new artists, get real estate.

— Lil Boosie

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

— Andy Warhol

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

— Salman Rushdie

“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

— Peter Shaffer

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

— Massimiliano Gioni

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

— Henri Michaux

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract…

— Peggy Guggenheim

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

— Carmen Cusack

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his…

— Anselm Kiefer

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

— Tracy Chapman

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to…

— Omari Hardwick

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

— John Mellencamp

2017 saw a slew of big pop and hip-hop records, a number of breakout female singer-songwriters and all-girl bands, and the return…

— Elizabeth Flock

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be…

— Oscar Wilde

I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political…

— Carrie Brownstein

“Artists are the architects of our future. The messages they deliver through music, film and television are what guides popular culture. If…

— TAMMY (McCrary

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line.…

— Pablo Picasso

Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same…

— Mark Kostabi

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become…

— Hans Hofmann

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about…

— Ken Gillespie

I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.

— Kehinde Wiley

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

— Kurt Cobain

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

— Eileen Myles

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

— Edvard Munch

I must be the only artist whose image was hated by everybody.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

“An artist must either give up art or develop.”

— Pauline Kael

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

— Albert Camus

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

— Josef Skvorecky

Painting is but another word for feeling.

— John Constable

One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.

— Kerry James Marshall

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

— John Ruskin

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

— Joni Mitchell

I always start a painting with the sky.

— Alfred Sisley

True art is very apt to break rules without violation of regulations.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger