Artist Quotes · Page 400

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

— Criss Jami

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

— Jim Rowe

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of…

— Esaias Tegner

Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go…

— Natalie Goldberg

A lot of us New Yorkers have bought apartments or bought lofts or are struggling to do it because at least that…

— Sharon Zukin

I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a…

— Charli XCX

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines,…

— Egon Friedell

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And…

— Joseph Conrad

You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case.…

— Sam Hunt

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of…

— Karl Lagerfeld

Mazhar never wanted me to grow as an individual or as an artist. He always wanted me to be with the kids…

— Zeenat Aman

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

— Madonna Ciccone

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

— Osamu Dazai

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

— Big Freedia

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

— Brad Holland

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to…

— Michael Giacchino

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw…

— Nick Carter

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

— Guy Kawasaki

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

“Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.”

— Armistead Maupin

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

— William Cowper

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

— Prince Royce

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

— Edward Hopper

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

— Issey Miyake

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...

— Bill Hicks

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a…

— Lou Reed

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people…

— Takeshi Kitano

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

— John Ruskin

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate…

— Wesley Snipes

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it.…

— Meg Cabot

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

— Henri Matisse

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to…

— Julie Taymor

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes…

— Ryan McGinness