Artist Quotes · Page 377

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

— Ian McDiarmid

I don't feel like my sound is similar to any female artist that's out right now, so I definitely feel like we…

— Megan Thee Stallion

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

— Alain de Botton

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making -…

— Peter Zumthor

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

— Robert Motherwell

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior…

— Fernando Pessoa

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on…

— Grandma Moses

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

— Cam Gigandet

Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday…

— Anonymous

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an…

— Todd Walker

I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at…

— Barry Ptolemy

I've had people say to me, "Well, how do I start collecting artworks?" Well, you start by buying. Buy what you like,…

— Larry Gagosian

There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what…

— Mark Kostabi

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats…

— Jane Campion

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Nothing frustrates me about the art world. It is a lovely place. There are many daft things that amuse me about it…

— Grayson Perry

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

— Tom Weston-Jones

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

— Talib Kweli

After giving up being a session/touring drummer I decided to pursue this crazy dream I had of being a solo artist.

— G Flip

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

— Andre Gide

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

— Norman Granz

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

— Talib Kweli

I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

— Mohsin Hamid

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

— Henri Matisse

“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.”

— Robert Rauschenberg

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

— Frank Ocean

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

— Lewis Mumford

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

— Simon Cowell

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

— Pierre Boulez

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

— Plutarch

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an…

— Robert Henri

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

— T Bone Burnett

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

— Christian Wiman

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in…

— Lucy Dacus

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“I prioritize my creative pleasure. I enjoy expressing my artistic side and receive the gifts of doing so.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

I don't think, as an artist, you should be trying to make music for every moment of someone's day.

— JP Saxe

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell whether he knows it or not.”

— Steven Pressfield

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to…

— Keith Jarrett