Artist Quotes · Page 245

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to…

— Derek R. Audette

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

— Charles Baudelaire

We were thrilled when we were nominated for best new artist at the Grammys, but we were even more so when they…

— Ted Dwane

When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and…

— Lil B

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime…

— Erik Satie

I know a lot of artists say, 'If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like…

— Kelly Clarkson

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

— Cy Twombly

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work…

— Clara Schumann

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved…

— Jasper Johns

I think it's important to remember that an artist could be at the center of healing our problems because, every day, that's…

— David Lang

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all…

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but…

— Mike Curran

To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly…

— James Elkins

The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a…

— Willem de Kooning

Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW,…

— Josef Albers

The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured,…

— Ben Shahn

Well, each artist has something special about them. And I try to find whats best in them and find a song that…

— Dr. Luke

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

— Faith Sullivan

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

— John Legend

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

— Odilon Redon

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

— Gerhard Richter

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

— Louie Psihoyos

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

— Seth Godin

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify…

— Edvard Munch

I like to sketch and draw and a lot of people don't know is that I drew a lot of my tats.

— Bradley Beal

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

— Don Everly

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

— Oscar Wilde

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he…

— W. H. Auden

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

— Steven Wright

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the…

— Asher Brown Durand

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

— Eric Maisel

“I don't think there's any artist of any value that does not doubt what they're doing.”

— Francis Coppola

Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

“We’re all artists. It’s just most people keep their inner artist locked behind their rib cage.”

— Jarod Kintz

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in…

— Oscar Wilde