Artist Quotes · Page 815

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist…

— Seth Godin

I've known who I am as an artist for a long time; 'Idol' has shown me what I'm capable of. I know…

— Crystal Bowersox

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something…

— Frank Ocean

“Art is an approach for evolving ; Self-realisation and thereafter self-reform. A healing. Each Artwork is a testament that artist and part…

— Monika Ajay Kaul

If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page…

— Simon Cowell

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean.…

— Jasper Johns

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that…

— Pablo Picasso

“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as…

— Norman McLaren

“The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do…

— Steven Pressfield

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of…

— John Berger

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was…

— Karl Pilkington

“But there is another case for curating as a vanguard activity for the twenty-first century. As the artist Tino Sehgal has pointed…

— John Brockman

Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details,…

— Camille Henrot

The decisions you make can be upsetting to fans. I've experienced that, as a listener, looking at artists I've admired. It's sensitive.…

— Alex Scally

I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its…

— Rene Ricard

Your body is not your art - it's your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any…

— Barbra Streisand

I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the…

— Michael C. McMillen

For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price…

— Wynton Marsalis

I enjoyed working with Vishal Bhardwaj. As an artist I still think the song could have been better but everyone liked it…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your…

— Stephen King

People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as…

— Marina Abramovic

I think I misunderstood Instagram and just thought it was people photographing their friends, and discovered there were a number of people,…

— Stephen Shore

In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many…

— Raul Garcia

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to…

— Otto Dix

A really good impressionist, even if they don't look at all like the person they're impersonating, it's a weird thing where they…

— Ato Essandoh

All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that…

— Jackson Pollock

Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the…

— Anonymous

“Unless we are willing to accept our artists as they are, the answer to the question, "Who speaks for America today?" will…

— Flannery O'Connor

A bunch of comedians have gotten in 'trouble' for sharing their views. When an actor or an artist or might come out…

— Craig Robinson

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I…

— Paul Smith

Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot.…

— Hugo Chavez

When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on…

— Heidi Julavits

It's a challenging task for every artist to come up with new ideas. Your last video would have made a benchmark, so…

— Bhuvan Bam

“My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. That is to say,…

— John Barth

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.…

— Benjamin Haydon