Artist Quotes · Page 473

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

— Zac Posen

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

— Yoko Ono

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils…

— William Merritt Chase

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

— PJ Harvey

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag

Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is…

— Yasumasa Morimura

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

— Henry Abbey

I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is…

— Glen Hansard

...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal…

— Patti Smith

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to…

— Julian Schnabel

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what…

— Jean Dubuffet

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this…

— Nick Flynn

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole,…

— Lukas Foss

Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down…

— Arno Hintjens

It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not…

— Robert Davi

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

— E. L. Doctorow

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to…

— Charles de Lint

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

— Anais Nin

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

— Chamillionaire

The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.

— Suzanne Collins

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

— Kiesza

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

— Vera Farmiga

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

— Mike Leigh

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

Warhol took outcasts and made them into stars. There will never be another artist like him.

— Udo Kier

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

— Pablo Picasso

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

— Jerry Saltz

It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song…

— Bebe Rexha

When I'm at the gym, I work very hard to achieve my goal and to get better as a mixed martial artist.

— Rory MacDonald

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

— Tupac Shakur

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

— Brahmananda Saraswati

Rather than say art is art and life is life, I like to say that they're joined and inextricable.

— Glenn Ligon

I only know one way to sing, and thats me. I cant morph who I am as an artist into two different…

— Renee Rapp

I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message.

— Kristanna Loken

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul'…

— Michael Leunig

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

— Anonymous

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

— Rudolf Steiner

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then…

— Mamie Gummer