Artist Quotes · Page 414

“Most people don’t have shit… But paper and pencils are cheap, that’s why I draw.”

— Ida Løkås

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

— Ken Loach

My favorite soul artist, I would have to say D'Angelo. That's R&B, soul. Trap artist, I would probably have to say...Young Thug.

— Bryson Tiller

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

— Chris Gardner

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

— Daniel Clowes

“Something in your brushwork touches the heart, Issun. You never abandoned your life as an artist after all.”

— Oki

I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.

— Lana Del Rey

People often think of artists and scientists as being diametrically opposed, but we both believe something is possible. We have a hypothesis…

— Mira Calix

I did A-levels in Art, Graphic Design, Maths and General Studies, and always thought I would be an artist or graphic designer,…

— Dan Hardy

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace…

— Oscar Wilde

It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to…

— Calvin Seerveld

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in…

— Boots Riley

I would say "These Days." It was the title song to an album I put out, and it's really this song that…

— Mike Stud

I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that…

— Boris Vallejo

Sometimes I draw with my left hand and I am pretty terrible. The drawings end up just looking like shakier/inconsistent (worse) versions…

— Jason Polan

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it…

— Labrinth

“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s”

— Jean Hegland

When I'm getting ready for a part, the makeup artist will often say something like: 'Oh, you don't seem the type for…

— Jason Watkins

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

— Richard Phillips

Especially for my first album, I struggled with even the thought of being a solo artist.

— LeToya Luckett

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

— Rene Angelil

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

— Bill Griffith

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on…

— Del Close

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or…

— Dua Lipa

I've had a nice career. I'm no David Bowie or Bruce Springsteen out there. I'm not an icon. I'm just a working…

— Rodney Crowell

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

— Edgard Varese

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

— Anonymous

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it,…

— George Edward Woodberry

“If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.”

— Hokusai Katsushika

“The first creation of every artist is getting carved from the best moments of his life!!”

— Nelson Jack

“All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures…

— Ryan McGinley

But I wanted to put on a good show and make people believe in my music more than just being another TV…

— Guy Sebastian

'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.

— Maya Beiser

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

— John Howe

I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me.

— Kevin Gates

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

— Robert Black