Artist Quotes · Page 263

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham

If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

— KRS-One

“In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.

— Ritwik Ghatak

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

— Stan Smith

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art…

— Vincent Price

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

If I was stuck on an island with one artist's discography, it'd probably be Jay-Z's. It would keep me entertained and it…

— Tristan Thompson

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once…

— Pablo Picasso

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in…

— Stephen Beal

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention…

— Jean Sibelius

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them…

— Alton Tobey

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me.…

— James Cromwell

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as…

— Jonathon Keats

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

— Hermann Hesse

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

— Rufus Wainwright

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

— Steve Jobs

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

— Henry James

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

— Kenya Barris

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design…

— Gabriel Basso

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

— Anonymous

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

— Ronee Blakley

Future is different from a lot of artists just because of his work ethic.

— Metro Boomin

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were…

— Walter Darby Bannard

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating…

— Seth Godin

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

— Demis Roussos

All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

— Billy Cannon

Calling an engineer an applied scientist is like calling an artistic painter an applied pigment chemist

— Ritu Ghatourey

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

If an artist can manage his career, well, that is half the battle to becoming successful.

— Martin Dansky

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

— David Hockney

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it…

— Bernard Berenson

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Fans are half of an artiste... without someone to appreciate him, an artiste is nothing.

— Fawad Khan

Obviously there's so many great artists out there that I'd love to work with.

— MO