Artist Quotes · Page 366

Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.

— Lizz Wright

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

— Paloma Faith

“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?”

— Dörthe Binkert

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

— Carolina Kostner

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

— Leonor Fini

“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.”

— Psixomaxaristw

“Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time.”

— Frances Hardinge

I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.

— Frederick Varley

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is…

— Ellsworth Kelly

There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few…

— Lena Headey

I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has…

— L.A. Reid

Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but…

— Lucas Samaras

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our…

— Rico Lebrun

Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to…

— Fabrizio Moreira

“As creators and consumers they fill the field of pop culture today, which is an economic enterprise and only by accident occasionally…

— Dallas Willard

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social,…

— Jean Tinguely

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

— Bennie Wallace

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

— Grace Hartigan

Artists can be themselves. They don't have to pretend to be somebody they're not.

— Chamillionaire

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects…

— Theo van Doesburg

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its…

— Jasper Johns

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

— Robert Osborne

“He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.”

— O. Henry

I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my…

— Cornelia Parker

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

— Jean Patou

Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.

— Michael Tolcher

“An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.”

— Jean Cocteau

I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

— Ne-Yo

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

— Kanye West

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

— Charles Saatchi

My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

— Shelby Lynne

I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

— Joe Russo

There is something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning New Artist of the Year.

— Jelly Roll

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

— Bela Bartok

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's…

— Robert Mankoff

“It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.”

— Will Cuppy

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

— Nas

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.

— Alison Moyet

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort…

— Tom Scholz