Artist Quotes · Page 452

I'm not going to do anything insanely different, but an artist always wants to grow.

— Laufey

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

— Raphael Soyer

Some artists want your money so they can buy Range Rovers and diamond bracelets, but I don't care about that kind of…

— Lady Gaga

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

— Donald Barthelme

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

— Erykah Badu

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

— Barry Keoghan

I remember when I was a kid , and I used to go on the computer just to use paint . The…

— Anonymous

“I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.”

— Julia Child

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the…

— Edith Schaeffer

“Cornwallis was a man who could have thrust his hand in a flame if necessary, but not a man to organize the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

I've always thought for myself, that's something I want to focus on - color palette and the use of color. Rather than…

— Gucci Westman

“Humans have terrible passions that can go either way: create or destroy, it all depends on where they emerge. Art is not…

— Jessica Zafra

So scream your heart out you are the chosen you gotta show them silence is the enemy scream it out loud we…

— Papa Roach

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it…

— Donald Judd

Yes, I want to make amazing, enduring albums that are perfect. But I also want to make what I want to make…

— Lola Young

There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money…

— Amanda Palmer

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes…

— Chath Piersath

“Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art”

— Dean Cavanagh

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

— Roy Lichtenstein

“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

— Alexander Dubcek

I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

— Damien Hirst

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

— Louise Gluck

I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.

— David Labrava

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

— Raymond Chandler

I started off throwing out 'Artist.' I made that my first mixtape. Then, I threw out 'TBA,' which means 'To Be Announced.'

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

“You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.

— Chris Columbus

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

— Amitava Kumar

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the…

— Georg Baselitz

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an…

— Seth

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

— H. R. Giger

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.

— Ben Eine

“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for…

— Solange nicole

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I'm just happy I got to express who I am as an artist and touch people's hearts.

— Melanie Martinez

“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real”

— Dennis Lee

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

— Kool Keith