Artist Quotes · Page 161

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

— Alicia Keys

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

— Joaquin Phoenix

I've been a martial artist since I was a kid. It's basically who I am.

— Dillon Danis

I'm a long way from being a Damien Hirst.

— Ben Eine

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

— Anonymous

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

— Corita Kent

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

— Hokusai

The basis of art is change in the universe.

— Anonymous

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

— Rafal Blechacz

Like many artists, I have issues with anxiety and depression, so I try to live in a way that supports my mental…

— Laura van den Berg

I think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent.

— Demi Lovato

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

— Herbert Marcuse

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the…

— Hans Rookmaaker

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

— Ken Loach

“Most people don’t have shit… But paper and pencils are cheap, that’s why I draw.”

— Ida Løkås

“Her flat looked like a mess –a coloring mess. Once you enter it, you can feel like a person had eaten all…

— Basma Salem

I don't refer to myself as a sculptor, but I use the word "visual artist." I prefer that, because that leaves the…

— Michael C. McMillen

The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.'…

— Steve Ross

Whenever possible, I try to get a professional to do my makeup, because the idea of putting together a flawless look intimidates…

— Amanda Crew

In terms of my development as an artist, playing Professor Sprout wasn't all that important because she is well within my capabilities…

— Miriam Margolyes

Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs…

— Joan Jett

“The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then…

— John Green

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

— Francis Schaeffer

Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police.

— Richard Huelsenbeck

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

— Anais Nin

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

— Jeff Tweedy

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've always gotten along best with artists.

— Jerry Hall

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

— Belly

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

— William Shakespeare

The role of the artist is to not look away.

— Akira Kurosawa

Miley is an artist, I will say that.

— Tish Cyrus

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

— Pharrell Williams

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

— Yoko Ono

I want to be the sort of artist that uplifts people.

— Griff

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

— Ronald Reagan

“Great artists make the entire world their home.”

— Chaim Potok