Artist Quotes · Page 221

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

— Brett Eldredge

Art and politics have many things in common.

— Tania Bruguera

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.

— Isa Genzken

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

— Invader

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”

— Anonymous

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

— Bret Michaels

Ah, I see. Well that's not too tikcry at all!

— Darold

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

— Jimmy Cliff

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

— Jean Racine

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance”

— Woody Allen

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream…

— Leonid Afremov

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

— damali ayo

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

— Mod Sun

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing…

— Wade Guyton

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents…

— St. Lucia

Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art…

— Hilton Als

“What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?” The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, and hit…

— Cassandra Clare

I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso…

— Marjane Satrapi

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public…

— Ben Shahn

An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken…

— Charles E. Burchfield

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

— Kiki Smith

“Art is what appeals to the a priori.”

— Raheel Farooq

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

— Johan Renck

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

— Jeanette Winterson

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

— Buffalo Bill

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

— Kyle Dunnigan

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

— Jean Toomer

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

— Oscar Wilde

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

— David Hockney

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

— Camille Pissarro

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

— Alexander Liberman

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

— Margot Fonteyn

“If there is no feeling, there cannot be great art.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The idea becomes a machine that makes art.”

— Sol LeWitt