Artist Quotes · Page 458

That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.

— Zoe Kravitz

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

— Sarah Cooper

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

— J. D. Salinger

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out…

— Marcel Duchamp

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

— Andrew Sarris

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do…

— Shakira

“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”

— Pablo Picasso

I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.

— David Harbour

There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society.…

— Lawrence Weiner

I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am…

— Tina Parol

The first two songs that I wrote, produced and demoed with my voice on it was that song and then Akon's "Sorry,…

— Bryce Wilson

What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have…

— Milton Resnick

I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with…

— Aaron Rose

Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon…

— Will Eisner

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through…

— Jesse L. Martin

There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an…

— Justin Cartwright

Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself.

— Herb Goldberg

As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.

— Rakim

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and…

— Alfred Kazin

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

— Vivek Shraya

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

— H. L. Mencken

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

— Brendan Gill

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen…

— John Frederick Boyes

My week consisted of mudding dry-wall, painting n putting up walls in a new house!! Hard work but it was worth it!

— Rebecca

The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

— Laurie Simmons

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to…

— Claude Monet

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

— Gloria Steinem

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the…

— John Malkovich

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

— Charlie Chaplin

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

— Christopher Bollen

The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

— Neil Young

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

— Dan Simmons

It's just so fun to share that experience with your best friend when you're finding your voice as an artist.

— Dave McCary

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

— Cornelia Parker

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

— Danger Mouse