Artist Quotes · Page 399

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.

— Haris Pasovic

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

— Ben Nicholson

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

— Carl Andre

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

— Brian Chesky

I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

— Charli XCX

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

— Cyril Connolly

I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt…

— Stella Vine

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with…

— Renee Fleming

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries…

— Emil Nolde

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There…

— John Lasseter

“One of the basic principles of every single art form has to do not with what’s there—the music, the words, the movement,…

— Cheryl Strayed

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to…

— Kate Bush

If you truly believe that artists have a responsibility to uphold their liberal virtues by using their massive platforms, then those artists…

— Matty Healy

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out,…

— Anton Chekhov

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent…

— Vivienne Westwood

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

— Jeff Koons

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

— Donald Judd

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

— Arne Glimcher

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist…

— Jared Leto

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves…

— Asger Jorn

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

“Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

— James Baldwin

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

— Black Thought

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

— Paula Cole

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

— Daveed Diggs

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

— Henri Matisse

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop…

— John Currin

“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.”

— Laura Chouette

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

— Joe Bradley

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

— Trevor Paglen

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

— Richard Clayderman

We do things the way we do them and we do them unashamedly. It's our art. If you don't like it, that's…

— Jim Root

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

— Donatella Versace

Sometimes as an artist you don't want to be an entertainer. You want to offend people and inspire them and that's not…

— Lacey Sturm

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

— Kate Millett