Artist Quotes · Page 407

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your…

— Eric Drooker

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back,…

— Mandy Patinkin

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

— Franz Grillparzer

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just…

— Alessia Cara

“We are but masterpieces waiting to happen, searching for our inspiration.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.

— Noelle Stevenson

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

— Scott Kahn

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an…

— Piper Perabo

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around…

— Bill Viola

I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything…

— Madonna Ciccone

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers,…

— Pablo Picasso

During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big…

— Jessica Sanchez

I take music really seriously. I haven't been doing this for too long, but I've been loving music for a long time.…

— Trinidad James

My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and…

— Joyelle McSweeney

I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when…

— Adam Lambert

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

— Karen Kain

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

— Moby

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

— Donald Judd

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

— Carl Andre

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

— Mark Rothko

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

— Jeff Koons

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

— Natalia Kills

“The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What we do with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.”

— Helen Maryles Shankman

I could have $15 million in the bank right now, and that doesn't mean I'd stop trying to be a better artist.…

— Nav

For me, I think of 'Dope' as an album. There may be a love song and there may be a party song,…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

— N. T. Wright

“Go out and support the arts in your towns and neighborhoods. You strengthen humanity each time...in the process.”

— Timothy Pina

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also…

— Jerry Saltz

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for…

— Seth Godin

I'm a rapper and an artist, but I'm a human. That's what people forget. That's why I try to make them remember.

— Rod Wave

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

— Raymond Carver

“I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.”

— Don DeLillo

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

— Lukas Foss

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the…

— Francis Bacon

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all…

— Paul Young

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

— Irvine Welsh

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

— Henry Moore

“To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself.”

— Anonymous