Artist Quotes · Page 146

I love to work with all composers as that gives an artist variety.

— Kumar Sanu

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

— Robert Wilson

“Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.”

— Marcel Duchamp

When your art fails, make better art.

— Seth Godin

I think it's important as an artist to never forget where you're from.

— Bad Bunny

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

— Ralph Bakshi

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

— Octavio Paz

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

— Henri Matisse

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of…

— John Constable

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

— Etta James

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

— Edvard Munch

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.

— Brian Froud

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

— Todd Rundgren

Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

— Goldie

I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the…

— Robert Lyn Nelson

Something is wrong with Eminem. He has so much in his mind that I almost feel lucky that he has music. I…

— Rihanna

“Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen…

— Happy Positivity

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm…

— Paul Simon

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more…

— Ned Rorem

I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was… Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use…

— Jim Dine

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have…

— Kehinde Wiley

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now…

— Jean Pigozzi

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

— Ai Weiwei

“Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.”

— Jonathan Smith

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.

— Adnan Sami

A cartoon drawing of me that I drew yesterday

— Crystal

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

— Ronald Harwood

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

— Madonna Ciccone

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist

— Smokey Robinson

I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.

— Pedro Almodovar

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

— Henry Ford

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

— Jean Cocteau

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

— Abraham Maslow