Artist Quotes · Page 421

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

— Nicholas Meyer

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I…

— Jackson Pollock

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

— Ed Harris

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

— Christina Aguilera

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

— Diego Rivera

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to…

— Beyonce Knowles

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive…

— Frederick Sommer

If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it…

— Grayson Perry

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint…

— Francois Cavanna

They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists.…

— Thomas Merton

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the…

— Jenny Saville

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from…

— Lars Ulrich

“The development of an image of the glowing human being can be traced in European art. One index of it is the…

— Richard Dyer

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular…

— Jon Landau

I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really…

— Tavi Gevinson

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

— Agnes Martin

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

— Ron Silver

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

— Kevin Costner

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you…

— Dianna Agron

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the…

— Rumi

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

— Kanye West

Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary.

— Tyler Farr

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

— George C. Wolfe

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

— David Bowie

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

— David Hockney

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

— Gustave Courbet

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.

— David Altmejd

I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better…

— Kid Ink

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand…

— Adam West

“Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.”

— Neil Gaiman

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

— Anish Kapoor

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he…

— Langston Hughes

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

— Deana Carter

I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

— Ira Sachs

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

— Cardi B

“The aesthetic moment constitutes this deep rapport between subject and object”

— Christopher Bollas

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

— Tommy Chong

“How mournful can be the words of an artist, concealed among the beggars and the roses?”

— Joso Skarica