Artist Quotes · Page 411

Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

— Larry Gagosian

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think that BENEE definitely has this newfound confidence in me where I love to do whatever I want and have fun…

— Benee

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

— Petra Collins

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

— Eric Maisel

It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.

— Ian Harding

Just as sport can, art has the capacity to cross so many boundaries like education, race and religion.

— Susie Wolff

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

— Jamie Hewlett

If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and…

— Chrissy Teigen

I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night,…

— Pablo Picasso

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything…

— Peter Lindbergh

My bigger game plan was always to be the top artist in the heart of people and that probably made me artist…

— Jubin Nautiyal

I think there can be a misrepresentation of who I am a lot of times because I might be more quiet than…

— Kip Moore

For us, as artists, our goal isn't to forever try to play at the biggest venue ever. Our goal is to make…

— Yukimi Nagano

The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the…

— Danny Fox

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

“We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament.”

— Ewart Grogan

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

— Simone Weil

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

— Laz Alonso

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

— Jennifer Estep

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

— Bruno Munari

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

— Matthew Quick

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

— Franz Grillparzer

One thing I can bring to this as second lady is making people aware of what art therapy is and how it…

— Karen Pence

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going…

— Michelangelo

Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

— Wayne Coyne

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

— Stockard Channing

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

— Tracey Emin

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where…

— Romare Bearden

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

— Anonymous

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

— Bruno Mars

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

— Neil Welliver

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

— Edward Albee

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

— Theodore Robinson

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or…

— Erica Jong