Artist Quotes · Page 487

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

— Edward Hopper

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art…

— John F. Carlson

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

— Albert Einstein

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If…

— Conor Maynard

I'm a traditional martial artist and I'm always going to carry myself in the most respectful way I can.

— Cung Le

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

— Javier Bardem

“The artist must operate territorially. He must do his work for its own sake.”

— Anonymous

My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in…

— Orlan

“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman…

— Margaret Atwood

So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms,…

— Henry Moore

There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob…

— Iggy Pop

It's hard for new directors to find good tracks because we don't usually get to choose good music by good artists. I…

— Romain Gavras

The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your…

— El-P

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a…

— Damian Marley

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

— Michael Cunningham

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest…

— Robert Rodale

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you…

— Twyla Tharp

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.

— St. Lucia

I really like hip-hop and rap; that's my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

— Billie Eilish

I consider myself a digital artist, so what I'll do is create everything with technology.

— Kesh

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

— Cheng Man-ch'ing

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

— Robert Longo

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

— Rebecca Miller

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

— Jacques Lipchitz

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

— John Huston

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

— Julia Cameron

“In a good society, people are interested in the hard lives of the workers, not in the easy lives of the artists…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits”

— Evan Meekins

“Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.”

— Amit Kalantri

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

— Nigel Cooke

Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

— Dwyane Wade

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse.

— Mary Carroll Nelson

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

— Deborah Solomon

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.

— Bruce Glover

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

— Ned Rorem

I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this…

— Samantha Ronson

Everyone always says I'm a rapper, and that I'm exactly like Peaches and M.I.A. People just take any female artist and compare…

— Uffie