Artist Quotes · Page 268

You want to do a lot as an artist, and Bollywood does not always give you that freedom.

— Sonu Kakkar

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

— Anonymous

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

— Mena Massoud

“What do they expect of a one-eyed, one-armed artist-- and the son of Garp? No flaws?”

— John Irving

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

— Sholom Aleichem

Being an independent artist, you have to find creative ways of getting your music to people.

— Carly Pearce

As a versatile artist, you can't pick a genre and I have this global feelgood presence.

— Quincy Brown

The first time I ever played Glastonbury I would have never have thought that a grime artist would have ever headlined it.

— Kano

“She only modelled for him once,' Max said stubbornly, leaning the canvases back against the wall and replacing the sheet. 'Once, twice…

— Robert Goddard

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,…

— William Morris Hunt

“So long as we exalt artists as beautiful liars or as the world’s most profound truth-tellers, we remain locked in a moralistic…

— Maggie Nelson

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether…

— Edvard Munch

“Whereas art critics are ready to accept-indeed are looking for-the new fabrication of a consistent visual language, architectural critics, like the general…

— Charles Jencks

It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why…

— Jonah Lehrer

The least-challenging way to make art for me would be to reinforce decorative formalism or find a way to extend entertainment values.…

— Josephine Meckseper

On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that…

— David Bowie

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

— John Cassavetes

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

— Banksy

“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

— Girl Talk

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

— Clement Greenberg

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all…

— Robert Genn

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

— Salvador Dali

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

— Jimmy Cliff

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.

— Tony Yayo

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

— Julia Cameron

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

— Thomas Mann

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

— Francis Picabia

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where…

— Arundhati Roy

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

— John Waite

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

— Craig Ferguson

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

— Hans Hofmann

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned…

— Nas

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

— Theodor Adorno

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

— Gunter Grass