Artist Quotes · Page 16

A great artist is never poor.

— Isak Dinesen

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

— Kehinde Wiley

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

— Ben Watt

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights…

— Hortense Calisher

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician…

— David Blaine

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

— Madonna Ciccone

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

— Jacob Lusk

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh…

— Carole King

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where…

— Kelly Ripa

The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity…

— John Kao

Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious…

— Simon de Pury

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

— Yungblud

I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.

— Jared Leto

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

— Anthony Quinn

Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do…

— Kelly Reilly

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a…

— KAWS

I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying,…

— Laurie Simmons

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

— Scott Avett

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

— Leo Kottke

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because…

— Bill Watterson

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or…

— Lukas Foss

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

— Hilda Doolittle

When you're a background singer, you're there to support the artist. The transition is up to the person. You have to follow…

— Judith Hill

“Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a…

— Camille Paglia