Artist Quotes · Page 89

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

— Paul Klee

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

— Peter Max

I am an artist and artists do not lie.

— Nagma

One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

— Mark Hamill

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

— Quincy Jones

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

— Amanda Palmer

I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just…

— Kyle

“It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.”

— Anne Rice

“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.”

— John Berger

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

— Kenneth Clark

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

— Ezra Pound

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of…

— Maria Callas

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

— Steven Soderbergh

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art.…

— Jennifer Egan

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a…

— Ziggy Marley

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer…

— Jeff Koons

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not,…

— David Shrigley

I think Pac is one of those artists that generations on generations know who this guy is, as an artist, as an…

— Annie Ilonzeh

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according…

— Eugene Delacroix

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything…

— William Bell

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at…

— Paul Weller

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

— Eugenio Montale

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

— Saul Bellow

The arts are the signature of a nation.

— Joan Mondale

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

— Cameron Sinclair

In the art world, Monet means money.

— Fiona Bruce

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Plutarch slides the sketchbook across to me.”

— Suzanne Collins

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

— Roger Ebert

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

— Gary Lucas

The arts are a major life nourishment.

— Kiran Ahluwalia

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

— John Updike

“A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.”

— Ezra Pound

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

But of works of art little can be said.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

— Hany Abu-Assad

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

— Paul Klee