Artist Quotes · Page 163

The arts are the science of enjoying life

— Anonymous

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

— Madonna Ciccone

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

— Joni Mitchell

I'm not a industry artist... just a artist in the industry

— Dmx

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

— Ethan Hawke

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

— Leonora Carrington

Tupac was the first artist that I really related to.

— Christopher Jackson

“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”

— Oscar Wilde

I'm coming to the artist with a smash. I'm like, "Yo this is a smash. We've got to go in."

— DJ Khaled

“He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at…

— Anaïs Nin

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

— Donald Judd

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

— Master P

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

— Warren G. Bennis

American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.

— Pontus Hulten

“Art is just escapism." Liam muttered. "It's not escapism. It's the truth.”

— Kaisa Winter

An artist's voice, communication, that's very important. The learning, the building of your energy to communicate deeper and deeper even without words,…

— Giuseppe Andrews

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is…

— Clive Bell

“Stalking is a very difficult art to come to terms with, for in reality, you can’t apply yourself to it. This art…

— Lujan Matus

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they…

— Kid Cudi

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there…

— Damien Hirst

Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality…

— N. C. Wyeth

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their…

— Robert James Waller

“Art value always goes up once the artist’s associated with fucked-up things such as cutting off his own ear like Van Gogh,…

— Matthew Quick

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

— Dave Ramsey

“Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.”

— Gustave Flaubert

My favourite artist is Beyonce. I also like Jasmine Sullivan.

— Eniola Aluko

The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.

— Black Thought

The frame is the reward of the artist.

— Edgar Degas

“Life is the artpiece you never finish.”

— Tji

“Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

— Benito Mussolini

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

— Natalia Kills

Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great.

— Leona Lewis

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

— Chris Ware

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

— Lady Gaga

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

— Agnes Martin

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

— B. Traven

“I’m convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power.”

— Veronika Carnaby

“My art will now only consist of she-wolf elbows.”

— Ilze Lipins