Artist Quotes · Page 261

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the…

— Rose McGowan

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is…

— Lauren Jauregui

I'd much rather be called a champagne socialist than be an artist that isn't talking about the most pressing issue on the…

— Matty Healy

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

— Michael Chekhov

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every kid wants to reach their goals in life and be the best. During my Bruce Lee phase, I wanted to be…

— Christian Hosoi

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good…

— Frank Stella

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy…

— Faith Hill

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let…

— Adrienne Rich

“After all, our main business in art, as in life, is to strive. Honest effort meets with its own reward, even where…

— Aubertine Woodward Moore

I think that I came of age in the 1970s with my own work, and it was a time of conceptual and…

— Laurie Simmons

I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics…

— Don Ihde

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing…

— Steven Wright

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of…

— Lynda Barry

I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out…

— Norbert Bisky

In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle…

— Toni Morrison

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

To be an artist, any type of artist, you have to be honest with yourself.

— John Fogerty

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can…

— Scott Adams

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.

— Kimon Nicolaides

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

— Seth Godin

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

— Richard Artschwager

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

— Henry Flynt

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

— Swizz Beatz

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

— Michael Craig-Martin

One of the best feelings that I've experienced is being surrounded by artists and thinkers who inspire you.

— Fred Hechinger

“An artist is ultimately remembered for creating an uncompromised body of work. Uncompromised, unfettered and fiercely passionate.”

— Nidhie sharma

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

— Jock Sturges

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

— Ali Smith

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

— John Langdon

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

— Hisham Matar

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered…

— Susan Glaspell

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because…

— Kiki Smith

“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.”

— Dan Simmons

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

— Harry Callahan

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need…

— Julia Cameron

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

— Barbara Goldsmith

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

— Criss Jami