Artist Quotes · Page 559

“I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased…

— Nikki Rowe

Precocious and eccentric are okay. But I think that people in the arts represent something integral and kind of secretive in everybody…

— Nellie McKay

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the…

— Roger Scruton

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much…

— Anonymous

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old…

— Henry Moore

You've got to run your career. What happens is a lot of times artists have this talent and they're just looking for…

— Will Smith

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that…

— Michael Moore

I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know…

— Stromae

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like…

— Jerry Saltz

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory…

— Lorenzo Ghiberti

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it.…

— Jon Pardi

Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to…

— Will Barnet

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a…

— Diane Paulus

I've been a signed artist, but it's only been a full year-and-a-half. I'm still kind of new to money and this kind…

— Polo G

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them.…

— Michael Aspel

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that…

— Damien Chazelle

“That’s the thing about deciding that we want to make a difference for other – our work becomes incredibly personal. Ordinary is…

— David Sturt

“Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any…

— Margaret Atwood

When I get to the drawing, I really enjoy taking a big chunk of time and working on the drawing and nothing…

— Bill Watterson

To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives…

— William Friedkin

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go…

— Ice T

Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal…

— Adam Kluger

If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with…

— Michael Atiyah

“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world,…

— George Bernard Shaw

I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get…

— Bonnie Langford

It's not that appealing when something sexist happens to you. But if you're strong enough, and you can push that aside and…

— Emily Lazar

In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map…

— Marcel Proust

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on…

— E. J. Hughes

It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow…

— Judith Ortiz Cofer

The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

The problem is we're looking for something that doesn't exist. We're looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There…

— Chris Abani

It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour…

— Bill Vaughan

“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates…

— Oscar Wilde

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I…

— Emil Nolde

“I presume this is part of your erotic art collection?" she mused out loud. "It is most beautifully done; only look at…

— Tracy Anne Warren

The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell…

— Terence McKenna

It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths…

— Loren Eiseley

I'm a touring artist - I love going out and playing live, and I was sick of making records didn't translate well…

— Todd Carey

I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of…

— Michael C. McMillen