Artist Quotes · Page 289

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

— Kevin Dillon

Too many people are worried about having results NOW...the Mona Lisa was not created in a day. Perfection takes time.

— Anonymous

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

— Raymond Pettibon

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think…

— Janelle Monae

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a…

— Norman Mailer

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

— Zadie Smith

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what…

— G-Eazy

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

— Sydney Banks

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is…

— Robert Henri

I'm not into screamo music, but I respect it. It's hard to do, to keep your voice and stuff like that. It's…

— Justin Bieber

Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can…

— Claude Debussy

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think…

— Conor Oberst

Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that…

— Vivianne Crowley

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would…

— Caleb Carr

Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

— Asger Jorn

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down…

— Charles Bukowski

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

— Bruce Lee

I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.

— Dasha Zhukova

“Time is a sculptor's knife, attacking the soft clay to reveal the hard edges beneath.”

— James Pratt

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version…

— Martin Parr

“I almost can't believe you won first place, because the painting deserves it so much, and people who deserve to win hardly…

— Natalie Standiford

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

— Erica Jong

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

— Galina Ulanova

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

— Sarah Churchwell

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”

— Mark Simpson

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable

— Liz Phair

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

— Marie Windsor

“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's…

— Dianne Reeves

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

— Maurice Ravel

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had…

— Ellen Forney

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

— Gunter Brus

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

— Jonny Lang

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're…

— Carmen Ejogo

“I know we can't all stay here forever so I want to write my words on the face of today and they'll…

— Shannon Hoon

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

“Everything is art,' Tim says, a far-off look suddenly clouding those hazel eyes. 'Death is art. Life is art. Pain is art.”

— Jen Violi

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

— Carl Andre