Artist Quotes · Page 426

It wasn't until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine…

— Zoe Buckman

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it…

— Peter Doig

I don't know if I am confident about my art, but I certainly am committed to it.

— Victor Banerjee

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

— Chris Hedges

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

— Gerard Malanga

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

— Noel Gallagher

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

— Paula Scher

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought…

— Vidya Balan

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make…

— Daniel Clowes

In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is…

— Robert Motherwell

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address…

— Alain de Botton

It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you…

— Emily Robison

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as…

— Georges Braque

When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them…

— Anthony Browne

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was…

— Voltaire

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort…

— Julian Schnabel

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

— Arlene Croce

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

— Natasha Lyonne

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get…

— Antonin Kratochvil

“He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the…

— Pavich Milorad

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

— Pierre Loti

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

— Meryl Streep

“Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

— James Joyce

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is…

— Matthew Slotover

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with…

— Liam Gillick

My favorite artist has not changed since I was five years old: Michael Jackson.

— Kemi Badenoch

Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.

— Kehinde Wiley

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

— Marcus Aurelius

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very…

— Oliver Jeffers

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

— Doris Salcedo

I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose…

— Redfoo

My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.

— Anohni

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

When I lived in New York, I was still ascribing to this idea of being a somewhat tortured artist. I thought that…

— Greta Lee

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

— Anonymous

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

— Erykah Badu

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

— Lykke Li

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

— Alexander Pope