Artist Quotes · Page 296

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a…

— Jerry Pinkney

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

— Brian Aldiss

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

— Peggy Guggenheim

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

— Marko Djurdjevic

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

— Flume

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

— Tanya Saracho

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

— Alex Grey

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that…

— John Constable

I'm not a model, I'm an artist. In one of my videos, I'm doing this shot of me with no make-up on…

— Jessie J

Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other…

— Kacey Musgraves

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our…

— Ursula Goodenough

“When you see a Gauguin, you think, This man is living in a dream world. When you see a van Gogh, you…

— Adam Gopnik

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an…

— John Legend

If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to…

— Steven Wilson

The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an…

— Pablo Picasso

I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the…

— Rex Orange County

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

— Robert Hass

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

— Doja Cat

“She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of…

— David Foenkinos

“Art should grasp the mind the way the vagina grasps the penis-Marcel Duchamp”

— Alice Goldfarb Marquis

“The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art…

— William Saroyan

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.

— Frank Shamrock

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

— Jeffrey Lewis

“I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel…

— Deb Caletti

“For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

— Robert Barry

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

— Michelle Stuart

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

— Rick Rubin

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

— Golan Levin

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

— Henry Hopper

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

— Paula Vogel

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

— Travis Scott

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

— Slim Moon

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

— Fred Tomaselli