Artist Quotes · Page 247

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look…

— Jack Nicholson

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to…

— Anonymous

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much…

— Philip K. Dick

“as I really don’t think I draw all that well, but it was interesting to see that some of the drawings worked…

— David Sherwin

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

— Amy Winehouse

Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail…

— Jack White

“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.”

— Elizabeth Isaacs

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny.…

— Marlon Wayans

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for…

— Patrick deWitt

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that,…

— Sam Palladio

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for…

— Tracey Emin

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how…

— Damien Hirst

I enjoy painting. It's an incredible release of tension, and I feel very excited doing it. I squeeze out some wonderful red…

— Stephen Hough

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about…

— Laurie Simmons

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily

— William Hurt

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

— Deborah Moggach

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

— Eduardo Souto de Moura

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

— Jodie Foster

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

— PJ Harvey

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

— Jean Dubuffet

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after…

— George Tooker

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a…

— Kate Bush

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

— Jean Cocteau

This is a drawing by me :D yes you might have seen it online but thats where I found it and I…

— Kayla

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

— Frida Kahlo

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

— Douglas Holtz-Eakin

I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to…

— Travis Knight

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

— David Bailey

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

— Cher Lloyd

I feel like I'm a realized artist, but hey, the good news is I can get better, and I'm going to continue…

— Rodney Crowell

“A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie…

— Nicolas Cage

“An artist so perfect reproduces the Mona Lisa, rubbished for being unoriginal proves talent & result unrelated.”

— A.C. Quinn

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

— Steve Aoki

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

— Alyssa Milano

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the…

— Marcel Marceau

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique.

— Keith Emerson