Artist Quotes · Page 467

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

— Junot Diaz

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

— Joyce Johnson

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put…

— Erykah Badu

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

— Steven Levy

I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I…

— Brad Paisley

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

— Gunter Grass

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

— Brandon Boyd

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to…

— Keith Shackleton

We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of…

— Kenji Miyazawa

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently,…

— Hiroko Sakai

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize…

— Tony Kushner

Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching…

— Jason 'J' Brown

If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey…

— Chuck D

I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not…

— Abi Morgan

“Cézanne, too, had had enough of psychology. He attended, instead, to color. "If I paint all the little blues and all the…

— Maggie Nelson

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were…

— Larry Rivers

The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

— Walter Gropius

“Michael used to draw self-portraits with nightmares hidden in his curls.”

— Janet Fitch

It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.

— Errol Morris

My favorite artist is J. Cole. I like Kehlani a lot. Teyana Taylor is dope too.

— KiKi Layne

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

— Gregory Maguire

“They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif…

— Irving Stone

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the…

— Winston Churchill

I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not…

— Jean Grae

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

— Max Eastman

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I…

— Trina Robbins

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

— Salman Rushdie

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.

— Sergio Aragones

There's certain types of music where the artist sells the song - where it doesn't really matter what's going on with the…

— Jessica Origliasso

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.

— Tatiana Maslany

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

— Michael Heizer

“The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify.”

— John Eldredge

As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

— Howard Hodgkin

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

— Sol LeWitt

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do…

— Alanis Morissette

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.

— Henry Austin Dobson

I don't think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color - there will be fewer roles.

— Malik Yoba

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

— Ai Weiwei