Artist Quotes · Page 294

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

— Robertson Davies

As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to…

— Khalid

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

— Kazuaki Tanahashi

It is like any other work of art. It is and never can be changed. Behind everything there is always The unknown…

— Randall Jarrell

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I would definitely say I'm predominantly a pop artist, obviously, but my music is different. It's not just top-40-radio-type music.

— Madison Beer

“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to…

— Hunter Reveur

It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative.

— Karen Civil

“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he…

— Pablo Picasso

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is…

— Corita Kent

There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.…

— Orison Swett Marden

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an…

— Thomas Kinkade

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in…

— Nile Rodgers

I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art,…

— Beverly L. Kaye

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an…

— Miranda July

A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an…

— Zaytoven

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as…

— Raekwon

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

— Scott Avett

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

— Stanley Kubrick

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my…

— Frank Frazetta

My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.

— Ezra Furman

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be…

— Christopher Willard

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in…

— Claudia Rankine

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

— Abraham Lincoln

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

— Mary Baker Eddy

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

— Tom Wolfe

It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.

— Raheem DeVaughn

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

— Terry Pratchett

I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's…

— Max Martin

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

— Paul Klee

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

— Martin Firrell

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

— Trixie Mattel

“The truth is, the more one knows about Art, the more one values Entertainment.”

— Jessica Zafra

“There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art.”

— Magaret Mitchell

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

— Nick Rhodes

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

— Jeff Koons

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

— Carl Maria von Weber

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

— Toni Morrison

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

— Simon Rattle

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he…

— David Lynch