Artist Quotes · Page 436

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

— Samuel L. Jackson

As an artist your number one goal is to say something, to really say something. Whether you're right or you're wrong.

— Mark Salling

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

— Saul Steinberg

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what…

— Alice Neel

“Shadow is an intelligent artist; it creates its works in places where there are already great beauties!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

— Justin Bieber

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do…

— Seth Godin

Couple of artists got words for me, that's never fun. They say it's on when they see me, that day don't ever…

— Drake

“While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own…

— David N. Elkins

You know, whenever you're shooting a film there's different obstacles and challenges, whether it be from the makeup artist getting fired that…

— Ja Rule

Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten…

— Fran Lebowitz

I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession…

— Mark Edward

When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of…

— James Balog

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day…

— Nancy Pelosi

Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of…

— Lawren Harris

Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And…

— Gerhard Richter

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

— Charles Horton Cooley

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.”

— Charles Baudelaire

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

— Jon Glaser

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

— Tom Stoppard

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

— Bono

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.”

— Oscar Wilde

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position…

— Kelis

You learn from doing and you learn from experiencing what it feels like to be present and lost in the moment with…

— Lucas Hedges

I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.

— Dave Grohl

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it…

— Pablo Picasso

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

— Nick Cave

My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the…

— Future

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I…

— Tom Stoppard

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

— Marc Chagall

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such…

— Marcel Proust

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

— Lukas Foss

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

— Anonymous

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

— Henri Rousseau

I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

— Margaret Cho

“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.”

— Peter Heller

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine…

— Robert Browning