Artist Quotes · Page 358

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

— Dorothy Parker

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to…

— J. G. Holland

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

— Ad Reinhardt

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to…

— Don Henley

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way

— David Hockney

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

— Henri Matisse

New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

— Brad Holland

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.

— Mike Will Made It

...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off…

— Thomas Hardy

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings.…

— Matt Gonzalez

Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is…

— Francesca DiMattio

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred…

— Anonymous

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be…

— Brandi Carlile

Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand…

— Franz Grillparzer

I'm Dominique Crenn. I'm a chef, entrepreneur, artist, poet, human being. I have three restaurants in San Francisco: Atelier Crenn, Bar Crenn…

— Dominique Crenn

Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his…

— George Edward Woodberry

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

— Kara Ross

If you think about corporate legal work that's done today, some part of it is art and then some of it is…

— Justin Kan

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

— Mike Tyson

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

— Vincent Price

We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.

— Julianne Moore

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

— Raheem Jarbo

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

— Daniela Vega

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

— Ice Cube

I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and…

— K. Flay

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

— Damien Hirst

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

— Steve McQueen

The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.

— Oliver $

“The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.”

— John Steinbeck

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

— Albert Camus

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can…

— Sam Taylor-Wood

You really can't pigeon hole yourself into one particular artistic area any more; the days of one vocation in the arts have…

— Adrian Dunbar

“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

— Kerry James Marshall

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

— Ben Okri

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

— Roy Lichtenstein

“Artists have to learn how to paint what's in the mirror, even if what they see is a total shit show.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

Cobra haffi pull yuh golden door knob. Paint yuh bedroom wid oil paint whey mi have.

— Mad Cobra

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

— Emily Dickinson

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe