Artist Quotes · Page 267

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

— Eve

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

— Wolf Kahn

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

— William Kircher

Being an artist means being unapologetically yourself, and I get to be that now.

— Raye

Our business model rises or falls on our ability to serve the artists. If others can do it better, the artists will…

— Michael Rapino

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic,…

— Annie Lennox

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether…

— Amber Valletta

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes…

— Billy Connolly

Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need…

— Keanu Reeves

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by…

— Rita Mae Brown

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you can tune into an emotion or experience that is universal, and draw it, sing it or write it so that…

— Anonymous

Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the…

— Barry S. Strauss

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with…

— Antoni Tapies

Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing…

— William Baziotes

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

— Pablo Picasso

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff…

— Robert Henri

“Why is it that a man always stops to admire another man's work at the worst possible time?”

— James Flerlage

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

— Hermann Hesse

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

— Tony Kushner

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

— Alan Moore

If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

— Fetty Wap

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

— Domenico Gnoli

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

— William Butler Yeats

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

— Holly Near

I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.

— Nick Jonas

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

— Walt Disney

“The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”

— Joanna Rakoff

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

— Theodor Adorno

Music is alive and as an artist and as a musician, you want to do the best you can to grow with…

— Sisqo

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

— Kiki Smith

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it…

— Jackie Chan

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and…

— Marianne Wiggins

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're…

— Jan Vogler

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers,

— Banksy

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a 'Single Ladies' for their…

— Laurieann Gibson