Artist Quotes · Page 466

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

— Kelly Reilly

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

— John O'Keefe

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

— Chance the Rapper

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

— Mason Cooley

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

— Ayn Rand

“With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

— Charles Bukowski

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

— Eric Maisel

“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature –…

— Peter Abbs

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and…

— Andre Gide

“Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at…

— John Bunyan

I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride…

— Jason Mraz

I take the palette with me, but I have a lot of makeup. I was a makeup artist when I was younger,…

— Gwen Stefani

I think everything you do in life is art. What you do. The way you dress. The way you love someone, and…

— Nate

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of…

— Thomas Mann

“The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The…

— Virgil

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.

— Gary Larson

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

— Francis Bacon

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

— Chad Hurley

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make…

— Eric Maisel

I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

— Nikki Grimes

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

— L. S. Lowry

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. So live life to the fullest with no regrets, just learning experiences!

— Anonymous

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

— Henry Miller

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you…

— Dominique Swain

Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.

— Matt Mullenweg

I always wanted to be an acclaimed artist and to be at the top of my game.

— Manisha Koirala

“out of a shardstrewn madness I stand up and look upon my hand, how it draws the one and only circle”

— Paul Celan

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed…

— Antoine Fuqua

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

— Anonymous

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the…

— Chely Wright

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

— Iris Murdoch

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

— Malcolm Mclaren

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

— Seth Godin

If I was strictly an artist, I'd have to learn to dance and get a shiny suit and stuff.

— J. J. Cale

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

— Prince

Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.

— Kurt Braunohler

I feel I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to…

— Madhuri Dixit Nene

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to…

— Donald Judd