Artist Quotes · Page 180

I remember music first artists second.

— Tina Turner

I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

— Mitski

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

— Seth Godin

To be an artist is to believe in life.

— Henry Moore

In love as in art, good technique helps.

— Mason Cooley

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

— Chance the Rapper

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

— Rebecca West

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

— Abraham Maslow

In some ways we describe 'Boxtrolls' as 'Oliver Twist' if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he's an extraordinary artist, and…

— Travis Knight

I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a…

— John Landgraf

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

— Anna Halprin

A life is a life and should never be trivialised for the sake of art or what have you.

— Heart Evangelista

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

— Shaun McNiff

Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.

— Paul Morrissey

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by…

— Peter Coyote

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without…

— Patrick Swayze

Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings,…

— Anthony Caro

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the…

— Glenn Kurtz

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void.…

— Patti Smith

There are so many rappers now that it's cluttering our culture. 90% of the time at a show there are more artists…

— Statik Selektah

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even…

— Taryn Manning

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

When I was a kid, my mom once told me that God was an artist and how on occasion He’d throw a…

— Kristina McMorris

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,…

— E. O. Wilson

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

— Jean Cocteau

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

— Henry Ford

I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.

— Pedro Almodovar

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist

— Smokey Robinson

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

— Anne Jackson

Getting in the paint is one of my keys.

— Luka Doncic

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

— Anonymous

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

— Ross Bleckner

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

— John Lennon

Where does contagion end and art begin?

— Neil Gaiman

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

— Joseph Campbell

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

— Georg Baselitz

“Jesus, you get sentimental when you're high on paint fumes.”

— Lisa Kleypas

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,

— John Maeda

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

— Joanna Russ