Artist Quotes · Page 439

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

— Tarja Turunen

Being an independent artist showed me that I don't need a label. Obviously, it helps. But I took my time choosing one…

— Chappell Roan

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot…

— Jessica White

For so long I was a struggling artist. I felt like I had my faith, family and health together, but not my…

— Simone Missick

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

— Edith Sitwell

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the…

— Willa Cather

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly…

— C. S. Lewis

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

— Amy Lowell

Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got…

— Warren MacKenzie

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.…

— Damien Hirst

When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release ,…

— Edgar Winter

Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest…

— Franco Moschino

“All art is immoral… For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of…

— Yosay Briels

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and…

— Teena Marie

I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's…

— Ron Parker

He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.

— Spike Lee

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of…

— Anonymous

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet…

— Andre Malraux

Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)

— Rudolf Steiner

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

— Bono

For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!

— Romero Britto

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

— Alan Menken

There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.

— Karl Urban

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of…

— Gustave Courbet

“Our great artists battle on a landscape we cannot chart, with weapons we do not comprehend, against adversaries we find unreal.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

— Kerry Cohen

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

— Louise Bourgeois

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

— Dave Hickey

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

— Witold Gombrowicz

“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”

— James Baldwin

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.

— Adrian Grenier

It's a constant quest to push the bar and work in films that allow me to prove what I can do as…

— Tamannaah

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

— Alfred de Vigny

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

— Joseph Plaskett

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

— George Edward Moore

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

— Samuel Johnson

For the starving artist, opportunity is a must - for the weary dreamer procrastination is disgust.

— Rukiya Productions

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond…

— Lucy Simon

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

— John Currin