Artist Quotes · Page 324

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

— Holly Near

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

— Alan Moore

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

— Tony Kushner

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

— Hermann Hesse

If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

— Fetty Wap

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

— Walt Disney

I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.

— Nick Jonas

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Being the youngest, I constantly have that insecurity of being the youngest, which ultimately is probably my drive. in a lot of…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Sometimes as actors and artists, we don't really get to be an effective and integral part of the promotional process, other than…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have…

— Namie Amuro

The writers are writing scripts that treat nonbinary like it's casual. Like it's in the 'Grey's' world. Nonbinary is a thing that's…

— E. R. Fightmaster

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people…

— Adam Davidson

Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If…

— Ian K. Smith

I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers…

— Debra Monroe

“And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way," Leibniz said. "Each painter can view the…

— Neal Stephenson

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it…

— Jackie Chan

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

“The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”

— Joanna Rakoff

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

— Kiki Smith

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

— Theodor Adorno

Music is alive and as an artist and as a musician, you want to do the best you can to grow with…

— Sisqo

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and…

— Marianne Wiggins

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers,

— Banksy

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're…

— Jan Vogler

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a 'Single Ladies' for their…

— Laurieann Gibson

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

— Sholom Aleichem

You want to do a lot as an artist, and Bollywood does not always give you that freedom.

— Sonu Kakkar

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

— Mena Massoud

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

— Anonymous

“What do they expect of a one-eyed, one-armed artist-- and the son of Garp? No flaws?”

— John Irving

The first time I ever played Glastonbury I would have never have thought that a grime artist would have ever headlined it.

— Kano

As a versatile artist, you can't pick a genre and I have this global feelgood presence.

— Quincy Brown

Being an independent artist, you have to find creative ways of getting your music to people.

— Carly Pearce

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

— Banksy

“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

— John Cassavetes

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all…

— Robert Genn