Artist Quotes · Page 58

Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that.

— Kiersey Clemons

I have learned that as an artist, I cannot succumb to the temptation to please others.

— Kiana Madeira

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

— Jim Perrin

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

— David Steindl-Rast

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

— Steven Wilson

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

— Justin Townes Earle

I always keep doing things that I want to do... As an artist you need to keep growing.

— Neha Bhasin

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

— Floyd Cooper

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

— Isabelle Adjani

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

— Suzy Bogguss

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

— Shahzia Sikander

That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.

— Kehinde Wiley

I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

— Lady Gaga

Jalen Hurts is a top-notch quarterback, decision-maker, leader, passer, escape artist.

— Mike Tomlin

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

— John Ruskin

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

— Maren Morris

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

— Mike Thompson

I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.

— Howard Pyle

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

— Francois Delsarte

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

— Anne Clark

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

— Lon Milo DuQuette

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

— Thomas Hood

A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.

— Jancee Dunn

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

— Ralph Richardson

As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter.

— Jesmyn Ward

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.

— Tracey Emin

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

— Miles Davis

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

— Craig Johnson

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

— Hesiod

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

— Nicole Kidman

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

— Francisco Goya

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

— Barnett Newman

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

— George Bernard Shaw

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

— Nina Simone

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

— Dr. Dre

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

— Russell Simmons