Artist Quotes · Page 333

'Beale Street' is such an intimate story that I think it requires intimate connections between the artists that are a part of…

— KiKi Layne

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

— Fetty Wap

The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.

— Terence Koh

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.”

— Martha Graham

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

— Dore Ashton

I love any opportunity to be able to dance. It's in my blood. I mean, I need to do it as an…

— Joan Chen

I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is…

— Invader

Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception…

— Wolf Kahn

“What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know…

— Jodi Picoult

Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those…

— Rico Lebrun

Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's…

— Elaine de Kooning

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a…

— Eugene Ionesco

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this…

— Paul Theroux

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in…

— Patti Smith

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a…

— Andre Maurois

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we…

— Esmeralda Santiago

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.

— Jason Polan

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

— Anonymous

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

— Susan Sontag

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on…

— Robert Breault

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than…

— Ai Weiwei

Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself.

— Rosie Perez

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long…

— William Dobell

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

— Germaine Greer

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

— Ben Hecht

There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.

— John Gourley

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

— Julian Schnabel

“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,”

— Ross Wetzsteon

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

— Will Cotton

The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my…

— LeCrae

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

— Philipp Meyer

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

— Louise Bogan

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never…

— Luc Tuymans

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

— Albrecht Durer

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some…

— Angelina Jolie

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

— Gerhard Richter

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

— Matt Bomer

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model...

— Giorgio Vasari

I believe in the need for paying for art. Free shows must not be encouraged.

— Y. G. Mahendran

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your…

— Lisa Kleypas