Artist Quotes · Page 319

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

— Vivienne Westwood

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

— Yungblud

It's so difficult as a female artist to make actual money, in my experience.

— Zoe Buckman

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

— Genesis P-Orridge

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

— E. B. White

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is…

— Shweta Tripathi

My mother, Sarah Fitzgerald, is Irish and a portrait photographer, and my English father, Michael Callaby, was an artist.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.

— Lil Baby

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is…

— Philip Pearlstein

I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you…

— Willem de Kooning

“You really thing I'm an artist?' Jane has responded. But Jane is coming to know the answer to that question on her…

— Kristin Cashore

I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy…

— Peter Greenaway

My first song was 'So Sick,' which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to…

— Ne-Yo

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools.…

— Ridley Scott

The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for…

— Hans Arp

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

— Edith Hamilton

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

— Thomas Mann

Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like…

— Tom Robbins

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

— Patti Smith

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

— Robert Henri

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

— Jack Kerouac

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

— LL Cool J

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

— Anonymous

While I hope that people like my work, I don't think an artist should be afraid of ­people not liking his work.

— Badshah

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

— Oscar Wilde

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

— Ai Weiwei

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible…

— Jamila Woods

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

Being an independent artist myself with my own company, that's more money for me.

— Trina

Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup.

— Anonymous

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

— Keanu Reeves

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

— John Paul Caponigro

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

— Nathan Sawaya

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”

— Donald E. Knuth

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

You have to come to terms with yourself as an artist and know what you do best.

— Keith Whitley

There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it's really about coming together and creating bridges.

— Yasmine Hamdan