Artist Quotes · Page 237

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

— Ken Baumann

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

— Marilynne Robinson

“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Any artist must simultaneously be nigh cripplingly insecure and massively egotistical.”

— Jason Erik Lundberg

I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist.

— Myles Kennedy

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

— Brian Blessed

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

— Umberto Boccioni

Sometimes fame overshadows an artist's music, and we forget just how incredibly talented these people truly are.

— Elvis Duran

There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what…

— Mark Kostabi

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats…

— Jane Campion

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and…

— Mary Martin

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which…

— Zara Larsson

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday…

— Anonymous

It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.

— Andrew McDermott

“Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign”

— John Gardner

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.

— Herbert Marcuse

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

— Don DeLillo

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

— Bud Luckey

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the…

— John Ruskin

“Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

— Jenova Chen

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell

“With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

— Ayn Rand

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

— Mason Cooley

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

— John O'Keefe

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

— Kelly Reilly

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

— Chance the Rapper

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

— DJ Khaled

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

— Art Garfunkel

“Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — HENRI MATISSE”

— Jack Flam

Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.

— Gary Larson

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

— Charles Bukowski

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

— Eric Maisel

I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

— Nikki Grimes

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

— Francis Bacon