Artist Quotes · Page 248

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

— Karen Kain

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong,…

— Stephen Fry

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see…

— Rebecca Sugar

Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.

— Jamie Hewlett

How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly…

— Anonymous

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and…

— John Ruskin

“This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.”

— Teresa Flavin

I always knew what I wanted, and I always had a very clear vision for myself and my career as an artist.

— Aimee Osbourne

I always wanted to be an artist of some sort and I was really shy growing up, so performing didn't really seem…

— Alison Sudol

Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he's trying to…

— Marco Rubio

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack…

— Chuck Klosterman

Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.

— Yasumasa Morimura

“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that…

— Robert Henri

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being…

— Willie Nelson

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their…

— Jerry Saltz

I've got such great people around me. They don't really care if they make me angry. A lot of teams, they're afraid…

— Justin Bieber

“One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.”

— Bruce Sterling

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what…

— Pat Boone

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

— William Lethaby

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

— Anonymous

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

— Peter Doig

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my…

— Jim Drain

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

— Oscar Wilde

I actually started off - believe it or not - doing drag. I travelled the world because I was a completely off-the-wall…

— Kristian Nairn

There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

— Beverly Johnson

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf

As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

— Vivek Shraya

“Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

— Pope John Paul II

I don't think we have to be jerks to make good art either, but somehow we as a society have romanticised that…

— Marielle Heller

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so…

— M.P. Shiel

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.

— John Mayer

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

— Jason Blum

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

— Paul Cezanne

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

— Dan Mangan

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way…

— Robert Henri

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

— Robert Motherwell

The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

— Doris McCarthy

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from…

— William Dobell

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

— Steven Pressfield