Artist Quotes · Page 288

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

— Leon Battista Alberti

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

— Lukas Foss

“I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.”

— Don DeLillo

I'm a rapper and an artist, but I'm a human. That's what people forget. That's why I try to make them remember.

— Rod Wave

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

— Raymond Carver

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times,…

— Dawn Richard

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people…

— Laura Owens

As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one…

— Peter O'Toole

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,…

— J. G. Ballard

What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And…

— Yoko Ono

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are…

— Roger Ebert

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really…

— Thom Yorke

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory…

— Washington Irving

Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and…

— Peter Doig

“...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...”

— John Geddes

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

— Hans Hofmann

“To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself.”

— Anonymous

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

— Henry Moore

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all…

— Paul Young

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

— Irvine Welsh

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the…

— Francis Bacon

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

— Bruce Lee

The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.

— Tove Lo

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

— Sara Genn

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

— Mencius

I've watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were.

— James Murphy

“You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.”

— R.K. Lilley

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to…

— Cheyenne Kimball

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

— Shinichi Suzuki

I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

— M. Night Shyamalan

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

— Tony Bouza

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

— Jenny Lewis

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

— Barbara Mason

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

— Howard Pyle

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso”

— Edward B. Burger

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when…

— Dan Fogelberg

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel