Artist Quotes · Page 372

When any artist performs for students, it automatically means they are getting a young crowd.

— Ankit Tiwari

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to…

— Jack Antonoff

I respect cats that can rap and everything, but the artist that inspires me is Turf Talk.

— E-40

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

— Al Jourgensen

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

— Albert Serra

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

— Charles Bukowski

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

— Greil Marcus

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know…

— Ruby Dee

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson,…

— Zac Posen

The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but…

— Susan Sontag

25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I…

— Daniel Boulud

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness.…

— Jules Breton

“The story is told of Michelangelo being asked about his methods for sculpting. He replied simply that he worked on a block…

— David duChemin

To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving…

— Arthur Honegger

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy,…

— David Rockefeller

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

— Robert Breault

An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.

— Margaret Mead

I cant make art to please everybody all the time. I make art that I like.

— Grayson Perry

“True artists know how to cut their subjects open and bleed them onto the canvas.”

— Chelsea Sedoti

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

To be a great artist, you have to know yourself, set your sights high and work very hard.

— Mirella Freni

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

— Margaret Atwood

Pa-ta Shan-jen (A painter who watched Mingfall) lived in a tree: The brush May paint the mountains and streams Though the territory…

— Gary Snyder

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody…

— LeRoy Neiman

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can…

— Dan Colen

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art…

— Paul Smith

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

— Jacques Barzun

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

— Richard MacDonald

As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.'

— Tyler Farr

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

— Anonymous

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making…

— Mary Cassatt

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

— Ai Weiwei

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in…

— Washington Allston

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

— Nelly Furtado

The only thing about rock n' roll in my house is a couple of paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan -…

— John Waite

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an…

— James Vincent McMorrow

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

— Roger Ballen

“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.”

— Charlotte Eriksson