Artist Quotes · Page 274

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

— Anonymous

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

— John French Sloan

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

— Lawrence Durrell

“Participation in an art, although unrewarded by wealth or fame...is a way to make one's soul grow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

— Andy Warhol

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

— Leo Tolstoy

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

— Paul Klee

Sincerest apologies to the friends who have to guess my drunk 'Draw Something' creations from last night.

— Kevin Pereira

I've met so many amazing fans in the couple of weeks since the release of my second album, and everyone keeps telling…

— Halsey

Our job is we work for the artist and we service the artists fans. And the better service and the better company…

— Michael Rapino

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint.…

— Francis Bacon

Trying to be an artist here in Nashville, a female artist specifically, you've got to figure out what you can do that's…

— Lainey Wilson

Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence…

— Irving Kaufman

I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps…

— Kit Williams

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,…

— James Keller

“You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it’s still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could…

— Kristen Ashley

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is…

— Wyndham Lewis

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

— Marc Maron

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual…

— Lucien Bourjeily

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

— Sean Paul

The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No…

— Zoe Kravitz

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

— Philip Pullman

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.

— El-P

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

— Paul Cezanne

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

— Francis Bacon

“clothes displayed an artist’s infinite attention to details. He wished, as he descended the steps, that this were a”

— Ayn Rand

I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.

— Rick Ross

In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into…

— Francesca DiMattio

“The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.”

— Louis Kahn

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

— Marina and the Diamonds

Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me.

— Akiane Kramarik

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

— Jill Scott

Over the years, I grew up as a person and made mistakes and had a great time and had a baby, kind…

— Tiffany Darwish

“Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

— Thomas Beecham

“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.”

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job…

— Anonymous