Artist Quotes · Page 369

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

— Timothy Spall

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

— Sol Hurok

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

— John Cage

“Artistry doesn’t always need an audience. Sometimes, it just needs a moment.”

— Steven Cuoco

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

— Joni Mitchell

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

— Donald Trump

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

— Jean Rousset

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,…

— Studs Terkel

If I, as a human being and artist represent anything in the world, it is my Jewish people, and therefore Israel is…

— Evgeny Kissin

The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human…

— Karel Appel

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I…

— Ziggy Marley

“The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse... To be too subjective with what…

— Robert Frost

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much…

— Claude Monet

“Your words on the screen are my color palette I dip my brush into your words and paint you On the sky,…

— Richard L. Ratliff

I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be…

— Fred Armisen

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

— Les Wexner

“You are the artist of your recovery, and you get to create and sculpt it any way you like.”

— Brittany Burgunder

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

— Vivek Shraya

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

— SonReal

Being the first-ever non-Korean artist at YG, it feels as if I have much more responsibility.

— Lisa

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

— Mos Def

Nam June Paik's artworks are highly intellectual, cutting-edge, and sophisticated. But he was also witty, humorous, and self-deprecating.

— Ken Hakuta

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

— Chuck Close

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

— Jonny Lang

Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums…

— Rahki

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

— Raoul Peck

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong…

— Ezra Pound

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

— Viktor E. Frankl

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

— C. V. Wedgwood

“I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.”

— Sara Baume

I always feel like we focus too much on image and the flashiness of what it means to be an artist.

— Gabriella Wilson

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size,…

— Henry Moore

I love the outlaw image and I think the industry has needed it. It takes the artist off a pedestal and brings…

— Johnny Paycheck

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be…

— Charles Bukowski

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

“A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us…

— Viktor E. Frankl

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

— Patti Smith

I feel like I have a responsibility to be true to who I am as an artist, first and foremost.

— Salim Akil

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who…

— D. H. Lawrence