Artist Quotes · Page 546

It's just so fun to share that experience with your best friend when you're finding your voice as an artist.

— Dave McCary

Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're…

— Kate Voegele

Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm.…

— Louise Bourgeois

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

— Steven Erikson

I am pretty bad at doing my makeup myself, so these days, I am learning from a makeup artist. I treat my…

— Nayeon

I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist…

— Michael Buble

There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money…

— Amanda Palmer

The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no…

— Dani Shapiro

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

— Edgar Degas

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

— John Updike

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

— Donald Miller

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think…

— Bubba Sparxxx

“Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents.”

— Anurag Shourie

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence…

— Christy Turlington

I had to see if I'm a real filmmaker. I mean, I have proven myself in movies and franchises, but am I…

— Jon M. Chu

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

— Art Spiegelman

Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.

— Lights

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the…

— Elton John

Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

— Mika

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

— Oscar Isaac

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

— Peter Clewes

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you…

— Russell Hornsby