Artist Quotes · Page 355

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.

— Daniel Caesar

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad…

— Paul Conrad

Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

— George Lucas

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell…

— Lisa Hanawalt

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

— Edward Hopper

I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.

— Demis Roussos

“(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois”

— Jan Greenberg

As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it…

— O'Shea Jackson, Jr

I have a lot of respect for these rock photographers. You realize that some of them were really led into the inner…

— Mick Fleetwood

My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the…

— Stephen Beal

“Dale Chihuly." She pulls out her phone and moves close to show me a picture of his work. "It's an eleven meter-long…

— Cath Crowley

“Kate had made both the environment and the body for him, and he liked the tranquil mood of the piece. There was…

— Greg Egan

Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged…

— Cate Blanchett

I want to see where and how far I can go as an artist. I look back and see what I've done,…

— Paul Weller

If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have…

— Felicity Jones

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

— George Carlin

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

— Thomas Merton

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

— Burton Silverman

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

— Terence McKenna

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

— Ruth Benedict

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

— Seth Godin

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

— Harry Belafonte

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

— Titian

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a…

— Philip Taaffe

If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

— KRS-One

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

— Betty Dodson

If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone's naked. It's not a bad thing.

— Gigi Hadid

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as…

— Jonathon Keats

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

— Rufus Wainwright

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

— Hermann Hesse

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art…

— Vincent Price

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

— Stan Smith

Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.

— Ritwik Ghatak

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Future is different from a lot of artists just because of his work ethic.

— Metro Boomin

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

— Ronee Blakley