Artist Quotes · Page 432

I am an important artist. And I make art. Therefore, my opinion matters.

— Poppy

I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of…

— Nina Nesbitt

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

— Yayoi Kusama

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

— Nadia Boulanger

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

— Tanith Lee

“...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles…

— John Geddes

I'm not interested in creating a self-aggrandizing home base for myself, for my artistic foibles and interests.

— Sam Wanamaker

Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing…

— Paul Claudel

I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for…

— Black Francis

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way…

— Jules Feiffer

When someone has to do work for me, I lose my mind. I can't help it, I'm a bit of a control…

— Zomby

Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You…

— Robert Montgomery

If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies…

— Oskar Schlemmer

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used…

— Otis Blackwell

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

— Chris Jordan

Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.

— Jesse James Garrett

“Through Art, all change is possible. Solutions seem to surface. Strangers come together. Meaningful connections happen.”

— Tom Althouse

I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.

— Leo Sayer

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

— David Gilmour

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

— Bill Buxton

Graffiti is art, but you don't see graffiti in the National Gallery. Graffiti is on the street - that's where it belongs.

— Jme

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

— James Joyce

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live…

— Anonymous

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I early on showed interest in the arts and I used to say, 'I'm an artist, I'm an artist.'

— Meena Harris

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

— Meyer Schapiro

I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me…

— Diane Arbus

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

— John F. Carlson

I saw the most beautiful moving painting at the art gallary the other day, but then I realized it was a mirror...

— Nikhil Saluja

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

— Steve Martin

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

— Laurence Graff

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that…

— Teresita Fernandez

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

— Wallace Stevens

One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.

— Ben Eine

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

— Pablo Picasso

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

— Charles Fort

I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key.

— Mirella Freni

I know that the fans are also very responsible for an artist's success and feel like they deserve to be recognized.

— Chamillionaire