Artist Quotes · Page 428

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but…

— Agnes Varda

If someone has given a hit in the industry, and everyone talks about the song and artist, that's a hit.

— Guru Randhawa

“Throw our your mean words, Mr. Freemantle. Art should be a place of hope, not doubt.”

— Stephen King

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

— Bruce Lee

Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad…

— Paul Cezanne

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's…

— William Beckett

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

— Louise Bourgeois

There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on…

— Gertrude Kasebier

My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the…

— Norval Morrisseau

“What does it mean?” I ask, trying to make him happy. “Does it have to mean something?” “I don’t know. I thought…

— Matthew Quick

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I…

— Andy Goldsworthy

What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was…

— Bruce Nauman

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless…

— Kenneth Clark

There's so much art and it's gotten so flashy. In the global marketplace, having art that's shiny and has neon lights is…

— Jim Shaw

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to…

— Elizabeth Catlett

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

— Charles Ives

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

— Bebe Rexha

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

— Sol Hurok

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

— Scott Avett

“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work…

— Happy Positivity

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

— William Shakespeare

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

— Robert Gober

Not that I sound anything like her, but I grew up singing like Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion was definitely my favourite…

— Lights

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

— Ralph Bakshi

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in…

— Sean Scully

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

— Pietro Aretino

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea…

— Oscar Wilde

“It was perfectly possible to be an artist, yet also to be robust and responsible.”

— Julian Barnes

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

— Ayn Rand

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

— John Updike

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.

— Mark Hoppus

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

— John Banville

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

— Hans Werner Henze

It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you.

— Laurie Simmons

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more…

— Darryl Anka

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

— Philip Guston

An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it.

— Anupam Roy

If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.

— Yara Shahidi