Artist Quotes · Page 225

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

— Vera Farmiga

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

— Kiesza

The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.

— Suzanne Collins

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

— Chamillionaire

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to…

— Charles de Lint

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

— Anais Nin

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

— Brahmananda Saraswati

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

— Tupac Shakur

Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only…

— Dan Graham

Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely…

— Sheila Heti

“I had no time to make a world of my own. I had to stay fixed, like Atlas, my feet on the…

— Henry Miller

“it is widely believed that the purpose of art is to challenge, to question, to transgress, never to celebrate, to harmonise, to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the…

— Masha Gessen

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a…

— Channing Tatum

I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture…

— Mark Foster

“...Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.”

— Jonathan Lethem

When I'm at the gym, I work very hard to achieve my goal and to get better as a mixed martial artist.

— Rory MacDonald

It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song…

— Bebe Rexha

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

— Pablo Picasso

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

— Jerry Saltz

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

Warhol took outcasts and made them into stars. There will never be another artist like him.

— Udo Kier

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

— Anonymous

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul'…

— Michael Leunig

I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message.

— Kristanna Loken

I only know one way to sing, and thats me. I cant morph who I am as an artist into two different…

— Renee Rapp

Rather than say art is art and life is life, I like to say that they're joined and inextricable.

— Glenn Ligon

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.”

— Stefan Zweig

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then…

— Mamie Gummer

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

— Rudolf Steiner

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Like this if you think graffiti is a beautiful artwork, or Unlike this if you think graffiti is just shitty vandalism .

— Mariana

Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.

— Oliver Cromwell

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs -…

— Celia Imrie

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

— David Oyelowo

Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right…

— Eric Maisel

It's a very satisfying feeling for everyone involved into giving bands a new life - for me, the artists, and the audience.

— Veronica Vasicka