Artist Quotes · Page 312

I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I…

— Taylor Townsend

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose…

— Francis Bacon

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Anonymous

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

— Friedrich Schiller

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

— David Hockney

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it…

— Ray Bradbury

The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.

— Willem de Kooning

“The actor can learn from the painter about the emotive power of facial expressions. The painter from the designer, about the potential…

— Frank Chimero

I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth…

— Michael Angelakos

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the…

— Jules Breton

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw…

— Julia Cameron

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing,…

— Jane Hirshfield

We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also,…

— Rem Koolhaas

I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in…

— Miguel Syjuco

My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at…

— Billy Bob Thornton

“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”

— César Vallejo

“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American…

— Willem de Kooning

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

— Paul Gauguin

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

— Blixa Bargeld

Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

— Ben Eine

“Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever.”

— Kenyon Gambier

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of…

— Romeo Santos

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

— James Dean

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

— Jackson Pollock

“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked…

— Christian Bobin

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

— Brian Selznick

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

— Sol LeWitt

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

— Liza Campbell

“I draw a girl without a face, drawing somebody else’s face onto her own reflection.”

— Akemi Dawn Bowman

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

— Guy Berryman

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have…

— James Pearse Connelly

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

— Miranda July

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

— Emile Zola

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

— Kirsten Dunst

“Life is a beautiful canvas, paint it with passion and diligence. Don't scribble on it with regrets.”

— Priyansha Vashi