Artist Quotes · Page 323

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

— Albert Camus

Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously…

— Dr. Dre

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

— Edward Abbey

I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of…

— Tony Harrison

“The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)”

— Christina Burrus

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

— Huston Smith

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

— Anselm Kiefer

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do…

— Max Weber

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry -…

— Omari Hardwick

My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better…

— Deborah Butterfield

Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the…

— Richard Phillips

“Making art can be a mystical, spiritual experience. Sort of like golfing on water, which I haven’t done, because I’m more Michael…

— Jarod Kintz

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to…

— Jewel

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he…

— Willem de Kooning

When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II.…

— Jay Roach

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

— Duane Ludwig

“To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough…

— Jami Attenberg

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

— Mariel Hemingway

I think the curation consternation is this: Just because you like something or list something, are you really curating?

— Faith Salie

I'm not somebody who would be a starving artist. I don't enjoy being poor, I like to sleep, I like not to…

— Robby Hoffman

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked…

— Matt Berry

“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse”

— Volkmar Essers

Being an artist means being unapologetically yourself, and I get to be that now.

— Raye

Our business model rises or falls on our ability to serve the artists. If others can do it better, the artists will…

— Michael Rapino

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic,…

— Annie Lennox

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

— Wolf Kahn

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

— William Kircher

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether…

— Amber Valletta

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

— Pablo Picasso

I don't train like a mixed martial artist. I don't respect the sport like everyone else does.

— Derrick Lewis

The Web has incredible potential for an artist who keeps in touch with millions of people.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I'm saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time I'm in a new city I wander into galleries and dream…

— Nicola Formichetti

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

— Marianne Williamson

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

— Rudolf Arnheim

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

— Eve

“Why is it that a man always stops to admire another man's work at the worst possible time?”

— James Flerlage

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff…

— Robert Henri

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

— William Butler Yeats

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

— Domenico Gnoli