Artist Quotes · Page 300

“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

— James Baldwin

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

— Kate Millett

Sometimes as an artist you don't want to be an entertainer. You want to offend people and inspire them and that's not…

— Lacey Sturm

We do things the way we do them and we do them unashamedly. It's our art. If you don't like it, that's…

— Jim Root

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

— Donatella Versace

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

— Trevor Paglen

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

— Joe Bradley

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

— Richard Clayderman

Body art isn’t a contest. The only person that has to like it is the person stuck with it for the rest…

— Jay Crownover

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that…

— Zooey Deschanel

Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is…

— Syleena Johnson

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really…

— Francis Bacon

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I…

— Lewis Baltz

A person who is driven to spend their time and energy doing something must believe in it, whether they want recognition for…

— Michael C. McMillen

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have…

— Win Butler

Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies…

— Wole Soyinka

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

— Jim Rowe

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

— Criss Jami

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

— Big Freedia

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

— Brad Holland

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

— Madonna Ciccone

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

— Osamu Dazai

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of…

— Esaias Tegner

“Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.”

— Armistead Maupin

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to…

— Michael Giacchino

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw…

— Nick Carter

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

— Guy Kawasaki

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...

— Bill Hicks

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

— Issey Miyake

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

— Edward Hopper

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

— Prince Royce

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

— William Cowper

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale