Artist Quotes · Page 464

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

— Sinead O'Connor

“The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon’s bill. Or both. It can help a person…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try…

— Olivia d'Abo

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my…

— Cordae

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done…

— Milla Jovovich

I don't even know what my artist name would be. Would it be Logan Paul? Would it just be Logan? I don't…

— Logan Paul

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

— James Frey

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

— Herb Alpert

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while…

— Laura Riding

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things…

— Julian Schnabel

That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past…

— Hilda Doolittle

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with…

— Ben Eine

Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd…

— Mark Hoppus

Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of…

— Arshile Gorky

I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New…

— Alec Monopoly

The Kirtaniyas are in the new wave of younger Kirtan artists bringing the divine practice of Bhakti from the ancient to the…

— Jai Uttal

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a…

— Frank Auerbach

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

— Alex Grey

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.

— David Ruffin

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

— Jello Biafra

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that…

— John Dyer

“hand. Here was a Catholic counterpart to Brooks and Warren, shifting the emphasis away from the artist and toward the work of…

— Paul Elie

I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a…

— Ronan Farrow

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

— Ned Rorem

“The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.”

— Murray Krieger

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

— Marjane Satrapi

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

— Roberto Cavalli

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

— Roger Scruton

When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.

— Michael Dirda

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

— Camille Pissarro

Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar, it makes you gag.

— Anonymous

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

— Dana Spiotta

It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.

— Mary Carroll Nelson

“An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance.”

— Kate Carlisle

“The real potential of becoming An Artist Nobody Likes was far, far scarier than remaining An Artist Nobody’s Heard Of.”

— Mark Manson

I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of…

— Brie Larson

I don't think that people should be confined to any particular aesthetic.

— Alexis Ren

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

— C. S. Lewis

“Edith would always believe art was for everyone, whether rich or poor, educated or not.”

— Lindsay Pollock