Artist Quotes · Page 442

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I…

— Gary Clark, Jr

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to…

— Philip Taaffe

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

— Jean Anouilh

As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.

— Sara Genn

It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express.

— Lizz Wright

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

— Alexander Calder

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

— Robert Hughes

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

— Carl Andre

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature…

— Robert Genn

What happens to a lot of artists in the music industry right now is the following: The music industry is plummeting real…

— RZA

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but…

— Ivan Brunetti

I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes…

— Florence Welch

On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt…

— Robert Hughes

The difference between Cals taste in art and mine is that I have some. Theyre fascinating. Its like being inside a dream…

— Rose

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a…

— Thomas Cole

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age,…

— Friedrich Schiller

I'm fortunate to be able to draw in different styles, but each style demands another approach from the previous.

— Ernie Colon

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly…

— Irving Stone

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good,…

— Fetty Wap

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation...

— Aldous Huxley

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

— John Burnside

Art is … a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

— Sufjan Stevens

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

— Geoff Rickly

I see myself, ultimately, as an entrepreneur artist that is still making songs.

— Adore Delano

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless…

— Mark Tobey

“Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.”

— Nathanael West

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

— Claude Monet

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

— Leonora Carrington

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and…

— Liza Campbell

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It…

— PJ Harvey

Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your…

— Jose Antonio Carrillo

When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

— Diana Gabaldon

When you're a solo artist and you're not doing well, it can be pretty tough. So when success does come, it feels…

— Chris de Burgh

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

— Hans Arp

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that…

— Eric Drooker

I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.

— Wendy Williams

Tank is my boy. I'm the first artist he's ever been on the road with. We go all the way back to…

— Ginuwine

Is there really any relationship between artists' personal conduct and their art? Certainly not.

— Fred Kaplan