Artist Quotes · Page 479

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

— Chris Johnson

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

— Frank Gehry

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

— Karl Marx

'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be…

— Charles Bock

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists…

— Ryan McGinley

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

— Liza Minnelli

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I'm not one of those artists who doubts that they made dope-ass records. From the first record to now, each record has…

— Killer Mike

The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and…

— Marcel Duchamp

My own belief is that rather than getting involved in trying to change the reality of social-political things, creators can be involved…

— Takashi Murakami

I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was…

— Albert Oehlen

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in…

— Ernest Hemingway

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common…

— Rosie O'Donnell

“All that ink, all that pigment, all that desperate action to preserve that which had been created -- it is valuable because…

— Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

“I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One…

— Mitch Lucker

I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.

— Keala Settle

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted…

— Pierre Soulages

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

— Winslow Homer

I'm not trying to feed off of a concept that another artist had - that's not what I do.

— Future

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

— Jerry Saltz

As an artist, it is heartwarming to see other artists appreciate your work by making covers and renditions of your original track.

— Momina Mustehsan

We tried to take different roads to get to where we wanted to go to satisfy our creativity as artists.

— B-Real

“That a thing is hated is not proof that it’s great art, but the lack of hatred is certainly proof that it…

— Brandon Sanderson

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

— Edvard Munch

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its…

— Jimenez Lai

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

— Ryan Hurd

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

— Billy Corgan

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

— Eric Rohmer

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

— John Lithgow

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

— James Rosenquist

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art,

— Robert Rauschenberg

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

— Margaret Atwood

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

— Igor Stravinsky

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

— Barry McGee

“The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

— Malik Bendjelloul

“Paint the canvas of your dreams with the blood of your sweat. You are the Picasso of your own life.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya