Artist Quotes · Page 254

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

— Vivek Shraya

Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums…

— Rahki

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

— Jonny Lang

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

— Chuck Close

Nam June Paik's artworks are highly intellectual, cutting-edge, and sophisticated. But he was also witty, humorous, and self-deprecating.

— Ken Hakuta

I love the outlaw image and I think the industry has needed it. It takes the artist off a pedestal and brings…

— Johnny Paycheck

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size,…

— Henry Moore

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist…

— Idina Menzel

As a working artist, I became increasingly aware of the patterns we see in the street and in America, becoming globalized in…

— Kehinde Wiley

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm…

— Jeff Koons

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be…

— Ai Weiwei

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some…

— Brian Wildsmith

Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're…

— Finn Wittrock

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers,…

— Alexander Smith

“I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.”

— Sara Baume

I always feel like we focus too much on image and the flashiness of what it means to be an artist.

— Gabriella Wilson

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

— Raoul Peck

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

— Viktor E. Frankl

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong…

— Ezra Pound

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who…

— D. H. Lawrence

I feel like I have a responsibility to be true to who I am as an artist, first and foremost.

— Salim Akil

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

— Patti Smith

“A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be…

— Charles Bukowski

“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.”

— Sanober Khan

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

— Louis L'Amour

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

— Mary Cassatt

I like art that's simple but feels kind of genius - like David Shrigley or David Hockney.

— Lolly Adefope

A lot of artists are afraid to be themselves and afraid to tell people what it really is.

— Joyner Lucas

Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.

— Ruth Sawyer

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

— Arsene Wenger

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

— Rita Ora

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

— Rajneesh

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

— John French Sloan

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

— Joyce Cary

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

— Don Ellis