Artist Quotes · Page 378

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

— Dorothy Parker

Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in…

— Robert Christgau

Elton John is a huge influence and an artist I've listened to since I was a little girl.

— Sara Bareilles

A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future

— Harvey Goldsmith

“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”

— Tom Robbins

“An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment.

— Ben Eine

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people…

— Lou Reed

Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although…

— Michio Kaku

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever…

— George Edward Woodberry

I took what worked for me and found I had a system that others were interested in and seemed to work for…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms…

— Carl Jung

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to…

— Balthus

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris…

— Madeleine L'Engle

A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.

— Ashton Sanders

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Everything evolves. I'll always sing ranchera, but as an artist, you want to explore, to do the most that you can.

— Vicente Fernandez

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

It's so difficult as a female artist to make actual money, in my experience.

— Zoe Buckman

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

— Yungblud

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

— Vivienne Westwood

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is…

— Shweta Tripathi

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

— E. B. White

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

— Genesis P-Orridge

My mother, Sarah Fitzgerald, is Irish and a portrait photographer, and my English father, Michael Callaby, was an artist.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

— Robert Henri

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

— Jack Kerouac

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like…

— Tom Robbins

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

— Patti Smith

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

— Thomas Mann

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

— Edith Hamilton

I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.

— Lil Baby

While I hope that people like my work, I don't think an artist should be afraid of ­people not liking his work.

— Badshah

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

— Anonymous

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

— LL Cool J

Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup.

— Anonymous