Artist Quotes · Page 219

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

— Ai Weiwei

“Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.”

— Jonathan Smith

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

— Robert Wilson

I love to work with all composers as that gives an artist variety.

— Kumar Sanu

When your art fails, make better art.

— Seth Godin

I think it's important as an artist to never forget where you're from.

— Bad Bunny

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

— Ralph Bakshi

“Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.”

— Marcel Duchamp

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who…

— Vanessa Paradis

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.

— Susan Sontag

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

— Robert Schumann

I'm an artist, I'm very artistic and it's great to have that. I have a lot drawings and paintings up in my…

— Chace Crawford

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

— Kehinde Wiley

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

— Anish Kapoor

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

— David Sedaris

I've got two brothers. One's older - the artist - and then my younger brother is an ecological economist - a farmer.

— Josh O'Connor

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from…

— Richard Fortey

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that…

— Odilon Redon

I'm listening to Spotify all the time and pulling in different things. I might find an artist or a song that I…

— Greg Kurstin

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but…

— Betty Dodson

“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his…

— G.K. Chesterton

The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a…

— Joseph Beuys

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging…

— Billy Childish

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical…

— Paul Klee

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Smokey Robinson

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

— Pedro Almodovar

You really can't bring about anything new with art

— Martin Kippenberger

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

— Nikki Giovanni

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

— Lawrence Barrett

To be an artist is to believe in life.

— Henry Moore

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

— Chance the Rapper

In love as in art, good technique helps.

— Mason Cooley

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

— Rebecca West

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

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

— Abraham Maslow

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