Artist Quotes · Page 339

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with…

— St. Lucia

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it…

— Murray Leinster

“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.”

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

“A true artist sees the rays of the sun, while others are still groping in the dark.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

— Meher Baba

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

— Ursula Nordstrom

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

— PJ Harvey

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

— Maya Lin

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message…

— Jeanette Winterson

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither…

— Pablo Picasso

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it…

— Kara DioGuardi

There are some artists that I'll always be cool with. We'll kick it and we'll check on each other from time to…

— Marcus Ramone Cooper

“The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they…

— Peter Heller

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

— Josh Tillman

“The worms were beautifully drawn, with their nervous systems and reproductive organs shaded in different colors of highlighter, but the artist had…

— L.J. Smith

I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have…

— Elizabeth Taylor

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

— Kerry King

Each day I record I'm always doing something different that I've never done. So I feel like I'm a new artist every…

— Tierra Whack

Darren Hayes is an artist. Im a singer, I write songs, but the things I do have always been bigger than me.

— Darren Hayes

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

— Henri Matisse

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

— Jimmy Carter

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate…

— M.I.A

Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy.

— Sergei Polunin

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

— Ken Liu

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

— Anonymous

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

— Tinashe

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

— Richard Aldington

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sometimes artists can have the same sound, but they can give you a show that makes you see it in a completely…

— Mr. Carmack

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

— Josef Albers

To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.

— Tierra Whack

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's…

— Marina Abramovic

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

— Jet Li

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence…

— Madonna Ciccone

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

— Edvard Munch

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

— Tim Burton

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

— Bertrand Russell

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

— Chuck Berry