Artist Quotes · Page 376

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

— Dwight Yoakam

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans…

— Adrian Marcel

I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.

— Piers Morgan

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

— Yanni

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

— Paul Strisik

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

— George Lucas

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at…

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

— Vladimir Nabokov

In life, we have two segments: arts and science. We need science to make our lives easier. But what do we live…

— Pankaj Tripathi

“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling…

— K. Flay

For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no…

— Damien Hirst

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the…

— Clint Eastwood

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which…

— Zara Larsson

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and…

— Mary Martin

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again…

— Leo Tolstoy

24 hours a day, I'm thinking about what we can do with this artist, what I can do myself over here, and…

— Jay Park

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen…

— Michel Leiris

If I didn't find art valuable, I would stop doing my work and only work for justice.

— Zoe Kazan

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

— Tyga

In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it…

— Mark Foster

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.

— Prince

The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

— Bruce Cockburn

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

— Camille Henrot

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

— David Mamet

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to…

— Mika

“Just as art is art regardless of the colors, a human being is so regardless of race.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

— Peter Sunde

“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.”

— Edmund Wilson

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

— Michelle Dean

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

— Domenico Gnoli

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

— Eric Gibbons

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

— Mary Gauthier

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

— Carlisle Floyd

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

— Annie Dillard

Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at…

— Wendy Starland

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

— Francois Delsarte