Artist Quotes · Page 62

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.

— Robert Smithson

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

— Richard Yates

As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.

— Paul Emsley

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.

— Peter London

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

— Lawren Harris

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

— James Lee Burke

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

— Oscar Wilde

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

— Richard Linklater

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

— Robert Breault

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

— Lewis Hyde

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

— Jim Lee

Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

— Raekwon

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.

— Kate Bush

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

— Yungblud

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

— Jacob Lawrence

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her…

— Shea Hembrey

I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me…

— Masashi Kishimoto

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a…

— Doseone

I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested…

— Elizabeth Neel

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar…

— Gary Burton

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that…

— Jimmy Carl Black

“I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of…

— Joe Nichols

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

— Theodor Mommsen

As much as I'm an artist, I consider myself a business person of sorts.

— Ariana DeBose

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

— Jodie Foster

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

— Sergei Bongart

There is no other artist who I admire and love as much as I love Bjork.

— Kerli

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

— Marcel Duchamp

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

Dr. Dre is the most influential artist and producer in hip-hop history.

— Jalen Rose

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

— Jill Sobule

If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.

— Yung Lean

I'd need an incredibly talented make up artist to make me look natural!

— Donatella Versace

Gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B were what I felt connected to as an artist.

— Raye

I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart.

— Scott Coker

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

— Vanessa Paradis

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

— Jay Sean

Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

— Dwyane Wade