Artist Quotes · Page 297

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

— Ezra Pound

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

— Anonymous

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

— Duff McKagan

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

— Maria Shriver

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and…

— Robert Henri

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

— Patrick Kavanagh

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a…

— Baz Luhrmann

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production…

— W. Somerset Maugham

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because…

— Bill Watterson

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music…

— Chadwick Boseman

Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on…

— Charles Kelley

The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But…

— Usher

Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what…

— Brian Chippendale

“You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of…

— Arvo Pärt

“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an…

— James David Lewis-Williams

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

— Franz Grillparzer

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back,…

— Mandy Patinkin

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

— Julia Cameron

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your…

— Eric Drooker

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

— Bonnie Raitt

“Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist.”

— Sarah Young

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

— Moby

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

— Karen Kain

I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.

— Noelle Stevenson

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

— Scott Kahn

“We are but masterpieces waiting to happen, searching for our inspiration.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just…

— Alessia Cara

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

— Carl Andre

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

— Donald Judd

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

— Jeff Koons

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

— Natalia Kills

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

— Mark Rothko

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for…

— Seth Godin

“Go out and support the arts in your towns and neighborhoods. You strengthen humanity each time...in the process.”

— Timothy Pina

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also…

— Jerry Saltz

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

— N. T. Wright

For me, I think of 'Dope' as an album. There may be a love song and there may be a party song,…

— Rick Famuyiwa