Artist Quotes · Page 240

As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.

— Rakim

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

— Laurie Simmons

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to…

— Claude Monet

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

— Gloria Steinem

The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

My week consisted of mudding dry-wall, painting n putting up walls in a new house!! Hard work but it was worth it!

— Rebecca

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

— Brendan Gill

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do…

— Joe Bradley

Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials…

— Karl Friedrich Schinkel

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting,…

— Lindsey Buckingham

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it…

— Jay-Z

The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between…

— Robert Barry

I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to…

— Ben Drew

The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my…

— Nigel Cooke

“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen…

— John Frederick Boyes

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

— H. L. Mencken

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

— Vivek Shraya

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the…

— John Malkovich

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

— Dan Simmons

It's just so fun to share that experience with your best friend when you're finding your voice as an artist.

— Dave McCary

The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

— Neil Young

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

— Charlie Chaplin

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

— Christopher Bollen

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

— Willem de Kooning

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

— Danger Mouse

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

— Cornelia Parker

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted.

— Robert Kanigher

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

— Jerzy Grotowski

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

— Jane Badler

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

— Freeman Patterson

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

— Frank Bruno

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

— Moshe Kupferman

What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.

— Marina and the Diamonds