Artist Quotes · Page 136

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

— James Taylor

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

— Giorgio Moroder

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

“...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.”

— J.G. Ballard

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

— Marina Abramovic

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

— Robert Smithson

I would say that most serious artists have a pretty complete idea of what they're going to do before they do it.

— Diego Cortez

Bruno Mars. He is my favourite artist, and I always look forward to see him perform live.

— Guru Randhawa

I don't think that a lot of people understand the difference between therapeutic art and art therapy.

— Karen Pence

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was…

— Tom Shadyac

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

— Steven Van Zandt

Im ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as…

— Andrea Anders

Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine…

— Ian Caldwell

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of…

— Andrea Thompson

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a…

— Carl Andre

Doin' music, musicians and artists, we have the advantage of doin' something that is our passion. At the same time it's fun,…

— Tyga

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits,…

— Johann Johannsson

If you are an artist, you may live with Lincoln. You sit with him, your coat is spread to keep the snow…

— Gutzon Borglum

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

— Wyndham Lewis

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

— Nafessa Williams

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

— Robert Motherwell

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

— H. L. Mencken

All works of art should begin... at the end.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I still come closest to success with drawing.

— Paul Klee

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

— Selima Hill

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

— William Cowper

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

— Sylvia Plath

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

— Maurizio Cattelan

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

— Michael Jackson

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

— Pharrell Williams

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

— Lawren Harris

“If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

— Pablo Picasso

“When it comes to art and culture, I like anything that is good.”

— John Seed