Artist Quotes · Page 350

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

— James Hetfield

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

— Theodore Bikel

For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you…

— Blake Shelton

I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you.

— Michelle Zauner

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

— Jack Prelutsky

Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique…

— Leonard Wolf

“I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.”

— Juan Miro

Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.

— Lorine Niedecker

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet…

— Jerry Saltz

I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's…

— Pat Steir

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live…

— Ben Sollee

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his…

— Anonymous

My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that…

— Kehinde Wiley

The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,…

— Grace Kelly

I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social…

— Chloe Wise

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

— William Bernbach

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

— Charles Bronson

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

— Arthur Symons

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

— Jessa Crispin

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

— Richard B. Garnett

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

— William Blake

I'm an artiste... I dance, I act, and I do a lot of things that's got to do with arts, and that's…

— Nora Fatehi

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

— Frank Frazetta

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

— Brice Marden

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

— Ron Parker

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

— Bruce Nauman

Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without…

— David Hockney

I love seeing strong-willed women inspire little girls. I hope someday some new artist will say 'I was inspired by the Dixie…

— Emily Robison

“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.”

— Raoul Vaneigem

Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a…

— Maren Morris

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

— Heinrich Heine

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

— Stefano Benni

“That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I wouldn't describe the artist Theaster Gates as a mentor, but I pay attention and keep my ears open when I'm with…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

— Millard Sheets

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

— Rita Ora