Artist Quotes · Page 252

Michael Jackson is the greatest musical influence on me. He's my man. Musically, he is the one artist I want to be…

— Ginuwine

If an artist can take two minutes to tweet a fan and make his or her day, why wouldn't they take advantage…

— Cole Swindell

I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.

— Parvathy

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

— Isabelle Adjani

I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that…

— Sharon Van Etten

The vast masterpieces of art, business, science, and humanity were not constructed by practical people.

— Robin S. Sharma

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

— Douglas Portway

To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist…

— Jackie Kennedy

I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect…

— Lena Waithe

I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be…

— Brian Eno

There's an awful pressure on signed artists to make a hit song. But I never wanted to be an artist who created…

— Raye

“Remember that even if you have made a truly rotten piece of art, it may be a necessary stepping-stone to your next…

— Julia Cameron

I'm always trying to want to connect with fans and to connect them to each other. I mean, there's other things that…

— Allie X

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something,…

— Ice Cube

I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

“What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?”

— Umberto Eco

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

— Jimmy Smits

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

— Steve Martin

I think you have a responsibility as an artist to continually reach a hand out and try and inspire people.

— Tony Todd

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

— Terry Gross

I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.

— Jeff Gutt

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

— Anonymous

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

— Jessie J

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

— Tristan Tzara

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

— Charlie Peacock

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

— Tom Turner

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is…

— Shirley Manson

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

— Susan Sontag

“Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.”

— Carol Brearley

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

— John Ruskin

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

— Choi Soo-young

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

— Frank Iero

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

— Carrie Brownstein

“To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.”

— Thomas Moore

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

— Marcel Duchamp

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

— Milan Kundera

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

— Oscar Wilde

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

— Pablo Picasso

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and…

— Paul Fussell