Artist Quotes · Page 440

I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively.

— Andrea Suarez Paz

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

— John James Audubon

I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch.

— Anderson East

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

— George Bellows

I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I…

— Snoop Dogg

The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you…

— Robert Longo

The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The…

— Freeman Dyson

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance,…

— Frances Harper

I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this,…

— Robert Hilburn

“Kunst ist Scheisse (Art is shit) was, fittingly, the motto of the Dada movement. Duchamp’s urinal was the fitting symbol. Everything is…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture…

— Janet Echelman

“Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly…

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

On one hand, I think it's very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it's not talked about,…

— Mitski

Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression…

— Walter J. Phillips

Work is an ART; so show your creativity, which fulfill your materialistic needs.

— Asif Z Warsi

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

— Shakira

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

— Ai Weiwei

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be…

— Don Hertzfeldt

There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.

— Wolf Kahn

Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.

— Roy Lichtenstein

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms…

— Walter Darby Bannard

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

— Robert Adams

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story -…

— Haile Gerima

I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

— Dore Ashton

The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

— Henry Mille

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

— Kara DioGuardi

I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.

— Jenny Holzer

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

— Johnny Carson

I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.

— Regina King

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

— Edward Hirsch

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

— Chaim Potok

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

“If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“HIERONIMO. Art a painter? canst paint me a tear, or a wound, a groan, or a sigh?”

— Thomas Kyd

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

— Camille Pissarro

I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together,…

— Stephen Hillenburg