Artist Quotes · Page 272

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not…

— Mark Duplass

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.

— Robert Ingpen

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great…

— Igor Babailov

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it…

— Kaskade

If you start as a Christian artist trying to be mainstream, you're done from the beginning.

— Kirk Franklin

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

— Roseanne Barr

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

— Jay Sean

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

— Anonymous

One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the…

— Twyla Tharp

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to…

— Samuel R. Delany

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a…

— Gloria Naylor

I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when…

— Paul Feyerabend

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that…

— Alice Walker

No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow.…

— Gerry Spence

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain…

— Jello Biafra

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up…

— Ariana Grande

We're the artist of our life, we shape things no one else can hear touch smell or see.

— Jeremy Limn

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

— Jonathan Miller

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.

— Mark Tobey

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further,…

— Salvador Dali

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At…

— Justine Larbalestier

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

— Jessie Ware

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment…

— Michelle Obama

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

— Thia Megia

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make…

— Alessia Cara

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

— Alma Gluck

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

— John Kurtz

Life is the art of drawing without any eraser. So b careful while taking any small decision about valuable page of Our…

— Melchor Lim

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

— Lauren Jauregui

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social,…

— Jill Soloway

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

— Gautama Buddha

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

— Ridley Scott

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Only pain, suffering and passing through the same doubts emerged clearly comes Amazing Creative Works

— Mak_786

I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that…

— Marian Anderson

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

— Thomas Guthrie

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

— Olafur Eliasson

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

— Paul Gauguin

As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a…

— David LaChapelle

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

— Jo Walton