Artist Quotes · Page 447

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and…

— Patti Smith

Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

— Jimmy Iovine

As a successful artist it is my job to give the indie scene as much of a push as I can.

— Badshah

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

— Paul Auster

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

— Alberto Giacometti

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of…

— Ansel Adams

If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

— Rico Lebrun

As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately…

— Peter Menzel

An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing…

— Pat Steir

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In…

— William James

Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal…

— Daphne du Maurier

There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is…

— Kelis

The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who…

— Willa Cather

I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being…

— Lauren Oliver

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't…

— Albert Finney

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

— Claire Messud

If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was…

— Andrew Stanton

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

— Eduardo Chillida

I don't want to become a laid-back artist by any stretch of the imagination.

— Jimmy Barnes

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

— Asher Brown Durand

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

— Blaise Pascal

“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and…

— Donna Tartt

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

— Anonymous

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

— Piet Mondrian

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in…

— Joshua Reynolds

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

— Don Bluth

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of…

— Immanuel Kant

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

— E. O. Wilson

As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your…

— Killer Mike

There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I…

— James Bay

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

— Adrien Brody

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

— Oscar Wilde

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

— Michael Haneke

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

— Thomas Eakins

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

— Ken Danby

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

— Dorothea Lange

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

— Denise Levertov

I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist.

— Lee Tae-min

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

— Iris Murdoch