Artist Quotes · Page 269

“The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is only art when you're truly happy with it. Especially with what we went through to do this record.

— Skrillex

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy…

— Robert Henri

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

— Danielle LaPorte

The money from every unit being sold is what I feel every artist should see.

— Rakim

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

— Justin Townes Earle

The biggest success for an artist is to know that his work is being recognised around the world.

— Devi Sri Prasad

“Saku's figure before me looked like a morning glory drawn with one stroke of the brush. My only regret was that the…

— Sōseki Natsume

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was…

— Anne Hathaway

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will…

— Maurizio Cattelan

Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely…

— Max Ernst

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way…

— Sergio Aragones

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work…

— Rob Nilsson

It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet…

— Henry Miller

You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the…

— Pete Docter

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of…

— Dizzee Rascal

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

— Edvard Munch

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

— Emily Carr

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's…

— Maurizio Cattelan

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

— Semir Zeki

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets…

— Caroline Polachek

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so…

— Bobbi Brown

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

— Euan Uglow

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

— Gavin Rossdale

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

— Yoko Ono

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

— Robert Hughes

I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

— Spike Lee

“Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times”

— Robert A. Heinlein

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

— Common

I do not want to make art and then try to dictate how people use it, or how people interact with it.

— Julien Baker

“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

— El-P

I am lucky to have found an artistic companion in Anurag; there is a sense of belonging.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

— Badshah

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

That's my whole point as an artist - I'm trying to get you to turn a page.

— Tom King

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

— Neil Gaiman

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

— Robert Henri