Artist Quotes · Page 299

I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference.

— India Arie

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

— Paul Laseau

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

— Brandon Boyd

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

— Romeo Santos

I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I do Xeroxes of my past collections and then I draw over them to see where I'll go next.

— Rick Owens

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

— Fernando Pessoa

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

— Eric Hoffer

As a lover of New York, I hope New York remains as successful as a city, even though the very groups on…

— Sharon Zukin

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect;…

— George Henry Lewes

To the man whom loves art for it's own sack, It is Frequently in it's least important and lowest manifestation that ,…

— Simpleman

“Duchamp thought it was for artists to decide what was and what was not a work of art. His position was that…

— Will Gompertz

Being a digital artist enables me to take my signature pieces and place them in a dimensional reality that only really exists…

— Kesh

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial…

— Aaron Bruno

As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make…

— Robert Longo

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of…

— Ellen G. White

The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.

— Haris Pasovic

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

— Carl Andre

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

— Ben Nicholson

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

— Brian Chesky

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

— Jeff Koons

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

— Donald Judd

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

— Cyril Connolly

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent…

— Vivienne Westwood

I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

— Charli XCX

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist…

— Jared Leto

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

— Arne Glimcher

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill

“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.”

— Laura Chouette

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

— Henri Matisse

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop…

— John Currin

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

— Paula Cole

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

— Daveed Diggs

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

— Black Thought

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves…

— Asger Jorn

“Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.”

— Fernando Pessoa

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero