Artist Quotes · Page 420

“One cannot even light a casual cigarette unless the artistic permission of the universe is freely given!”

— J.D. Salinger

“Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.”

— Oscar Wilde

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

— Busta Rhymes

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

— Julia Cameron

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

— Mike Svob

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

— Oscar Wilde

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

— Alanis Morissette

Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.

— Lord Chesterfield

There was a review by Fairfield Porter from the 1950s about Mark Rothko, one of the more hallowed names in American art.…

— David Salle

“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand…

— Taylor Swift

“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the…

— Cassandra Clare

Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.…

— Thomas Merton

“Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this…

— Debra Dean

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more…

— Paul Auster

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room…

— Sloane Crosley

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop…

— Ne-Yo

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

— Pope John Paul II

“Dalí from the Back Painting a Person at the Window from the Back Eternalized by Six Virtual Panes Provisionally. In”

— Joshua V. Scher

Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Deciding if I should draw on my sisters face with sharpie ^_^ even though she has school tomo xD

— Patience

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

— Bernie Ecclestone

I love Adele. Adele is my favorite artist. She's British. She's funny. She's just an amazing, incredible voice, and I love to…

— Millie Bobby Brown

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

— Kanye West

It's so easy to look at artists, like myself or whoever, and think their lives are perfect. That's just not a reality…

— Carly Pearce

We the best Khaled, no need to stress Khaled. Know there's a lot of artist, but I got the best palette.

— Wale

I learned to play instruments and I've been in bands since I was 13, but I wanted to be an artist and…

— The-Dream

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

— Lord Byron

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

— Isaac Asimov

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

— Rufus Wainwright

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

— Don Blanding

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

— James Galanos

“Sometimes life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one”

— Stella Adler

“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.”

— Jean-Michel Rene Souche

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

— Shinichi Suzuki

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in…

— Bebe Neuwirth

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

As an artist, my only relationship to my audience is through my work. That relationship is sacred to me.

— Parvathy

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

— Daniel Bell