Artist Quotes · Page 472

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

— Edgar Degas

Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

— Brian Eno

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

— Caio Fonseca

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to…

— Madame de Stael

“You'd think someone who could see the beauty in nature and capture it on canvas could see mold on the shower tile.”

— Beverley Andi

What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this…

— Kehinde Wiley

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is…

— David Bowie

As a filmmaker, like any artist, when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of…

— Ryan Coogler

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real…

— Suzi Quatro

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because…

— Julie Delpy

Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was…

— Nas

Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's…

— Big K.R.I.T

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am…

— John Ford

“For Art alone is great: The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.”

— Théophile Gautier

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

— John Ruskin

I'm aware that creative art is my form of ministry, my form of activism, my gifts, and with that comes great responsibility.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

— John F. Kennedy

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I…

— John Lithgow

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

— Dogen

Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it.

— Fred Armisen

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

— Agnes de Mille

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

— Bertolt Brecht

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

— J. D. Salinger

I think the best way I've grown as an artist period, not just in relation to creating music, is having a lot…

— Jinkx Monsoon

For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.

— Kevin Parker

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

— Leo Tolstoy

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others…

— Jessie J

Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.

— Sara Genn

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

— Kathleen Kennedy

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

— George Santayana

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

— H. L. Mencken

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

— John Waters

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music…

— Joel Plaskett

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

— Michael Dirda