Artist Quotes · Page 449

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

— Josh Peck

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

— Gustav Holst

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

— Karlie Kloss

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

— William Quigley

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

— Chath Piersath

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any…

— Shakira

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose…

— Jules Olitski

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

— Jacob Lusk

Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the…

— Ai Weiwei

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like…

— Alan Moore

“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.…

— Kakuzō Okakura

Now if you call 'Ain't No Half-Steppin' ' or 'Raw' an old-school song, I agree with you. But if you call Big…

— Big Daddy Kane

When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get…

— Amy Sherald

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but…

— Washington Allston

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of…

— Gloria Estefan

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

— Dr. Dre

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

— Morley Safer

Heidi [Montag]'s a far more talented artist. Personally, I think Lady Gaga is repulsive and classless.

— Spencer Pratt

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

— Andre Derain

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

— Boris Kodjoe

“Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.”

— Ted Gioia

There is nothing inspiring about this at all. Truthfully, not everything sad is art and sometimes sad shit is really all that…

— Needa Muy

Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!

— Sergei Bongart

Even before I became an artist myself, I always cared about my presentation.

— Fabolous

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo…

— Simon Cowell

I'm a true believer in not forcing anything. I hate forced art, forced anything.

— Denison Witmer

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

— Kalan Sherrard

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

— Michael McClure

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with…

— Sally Mann

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

— Anonymous

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

— Richard Schmid

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

— Peter Doig

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

— Timothy Leary

To be honest, I don't particularly see myself as an Icelandic artist. I'm a European artist.

— Johann Johannsson

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

— Guy Debord

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

— Anonymous

“You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.”

— Kate McGahan

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says…

— Ralph Steadman

The inability to allow a talent to do what he feels is going to inhibit his production. Always.

— Arn Anderson