Artist Quotes · Page 370

“There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with…

— Ross Wetzsteon

“Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.”

— Louis Faurer

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's…

— Abbi Jacobson

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a…

— Susan Sontag

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

— Kimbra

As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get…

— Hunter Hayes

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

— Victoria Legrand

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what…

— G-Eazy

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting…

— Robert Crumb

I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I…

— Michael Craig-Martin

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the…

— Connie Nielsen

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom…

— James Frey

Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to…

— Robert Montgomery

YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life…

— Anonymous

I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going,…

— Elton John

I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I…

— John Waters

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

— Shirley Manson

I paint a picture vividly as if Picasso's spirit entered me. Starin' at the Heavens, secluded in a tinted jeep. I'm sick…

— Cormega

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never…

— Ralph Steadman

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

— James Thomson

The majority of people, especially young people, know Dr. Dre because of Beats by Dre, not necessarily from him being a rap…

— Aja Brown

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss…

— John Oates

I've just grown up. Respecting yourself and your art means taking an interest in the other responsibilities.

— Adam Granduciel

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

— Tite Kubo

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

— Brian Eno

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth…

— Pablo Picasso

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

— Fred Tomaselli

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

— Jean Baudrillard

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

— Anonymous

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

— Edith Wharton

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

— Michael Gungor

Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity…

— Michael Craig-Martin

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

— Anonymous

Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.

— Guy Garvey

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and…

— Anonymous

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

— Asger Jorn

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters

— El Greco

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

— George Clooney