Artist Quotes · Page 456

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

— Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie…

— Nicolas Cage

“A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I feel like I'm a realized artist, but hey, the good news is I can get better, and I'm going to continue…

— Rodney Crowell

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

— David Bailey

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

— Cher Lloyd

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

— Karen Kain

To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique.

— Keith Emerson

“Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms…

— Deb Margolis

The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be…

— Paul Robeson

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the…

— Carl Jung

Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy…

— Roy Lichtenstein

“Life is a canvas. Don't let others create it for you, you have to create it the way you want it to…

— LaLee Burger

I've gone through a lot of trial and error to find what works and what doesn't, ... With that comes an understanding…

— Usher

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires…

— Lincoln Kirstein

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.…

— Rajneesh

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

— Alyssa Milano

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the…

— Marcel Marceau

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

— Steve Aoki

“An artist so perfect reproduces the Mona Lisa, rubbished for being unoriginal proves talent & result unrelated.”

— A.C. Quinn

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and…

— John Ruskin

“This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.”

— Teresa Flavin

“One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.”

— Bruce Sterling

I always knew what I wanted, and I always had a very clear vision for myself and my career as an artist.

— Aimee Osbourne

How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly…

— Anonymous

Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.

— Jamie Hewlett

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong,…

— Stephen Fry

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see…

— Rebecca Sugar

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

— William Lethaby

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what…

— Pat Boone

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

— Oscar Wilde

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my…

— Jim Drain

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

— Anonymous

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

— Peter Doig

As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

— Vivek Shraya

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf

There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

— Beverly Johnson

I actually started off - believe it or not - doing drag. I travelled the world because I was a completely off-the-wall…

— Kristian Nairn

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.

— John Mayer