Artist Quotes · Page 318

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

— Annie Dillard

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

— Pablo Picasso

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

— John Cassavetes

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in…

— Pablo Picasso

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great…

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I…

— Toyin Odutola

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

— Leon Battista Alberti

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

— Laura Harris

I understood my personal responsibility in putting Christ on the cross and the implications of how the Gospel impacts every area of…

— Sho Baraka

Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish…

— David Rice

“The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of…

— Luther E. Vann

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd…

— Colin Blakemore

I'm something totally different. There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and…

— Samantha Mumba

Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or…

— Tom Petty

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain…

— Ike Turner

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

— T Bone Burnett

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an…

— Robert Henri

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

— Plutarch

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

— Pierre Boulez

Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in…

— Robert Christgau

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to…

— Keith Jarrett

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

— Dorothy Parker

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell whether he knows it or not.”

— Steven Pressfield

I don't think, as an artist, you should be trying to make music for every moment of someone's day.

— JP Saxe

“I prioritize my creative pleasure. I enjoy expressing my artistic side and receive the gifts of doing so.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

— Christian Wiman

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in…

— Lucy Dacus

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

— Walter Darby Bannard

In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment.

— Ben Eine

“An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”

— Tom Robbins

Elton John is a huge influence and an artist I've listened to since I was a little girl.

— Sara Bareilles

A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future

— Harvey Goldsmith

Everything evolves. I'll always sing ranchera, but as an artist, you want to explore, to do the most that you can.

— Vicente Fernandez

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.

— Ashton Sanders

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman