Artist Quotes · Page 488

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love…

— Rashida Jones

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

— David Whyte

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or…

— Robert Longo

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I just needed to love myself as an artist and now that I do, I want to be the best.

— Doechii

“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.”

— G.K. Chesterton

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

— Alix Smith

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art…

— Yasumasa Morimura

It probably all started with The Beatles, and then I guess it goes out from there. Springsteen... Fleetwood Mac... I mean, that's…

— Jack Antonoff

The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not…

— Samuel Beckett

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become…

— Frederic Chopin

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one…

— Pablo Picasso

“The most twisted thing about being an artist comes when you understand you’re creating for one specific person. The painful part is…

— Tarryn Fisher

“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come…

— Douglas Coupland

When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and…

— Joe Bradley

Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get…

— Chris Ware

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

— Yoko Ono

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

— Stephen Metcalf

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

— Anonymous

As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an…

— Sia

There's no greater feeling than knowing that you helped in transforming someone and moving them through art. It's a beautiful thing.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

— George Santayana

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

— Ray Bradbury

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

— Rafael Moneo

“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.”

— Anonymous

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

— Josef Albers

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's…

— Gregory Crewdson

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

Unfinished project or piece in art, is always the best in prospect that: your expectation are higher.

— Moses Jewels Mwanza

I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.

— Misty Copeland

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe,…

— Ben Shahn

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

— Gavin Newsom

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

— Robert M. Pirsig

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

— Glenn Gould

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

— Henry Miller

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

— Aldous Huxley

I like Kendrick as an artist. He's witty and he's smart when he's spitting in his lyrics. And he's crafty.

— Redman

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!

— Gloria Trevi

I do indie films for the sense of fulfillment and to achieve my goals as an artist.

— Coco Martin

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or…

— Louie Anderson