Artist Quotes · Page 181

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

— Marina Abramovic

There's a whole advantage being an executive as an artist.

— Ne-Yo

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

— Theodore Bikel

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

— Will Cotton

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

— David Lynch

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There exists no more difficult art than living.

— Seneca the Younger

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

— Jerry Saltz

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.

— Kimon Nicolaides

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can…

— Scott Adams

To be an artist, any type of artist, you have to be honest with yourself.

— John Fogerty

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

— Seth Godin

Every kid wants to reach their goals in life and be the best. During my Bruce Lee phase, I wanted to be…

— Christian Hosoi

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy…

— Faith Hill

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good…

— Frank Stella

Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap…

— Eric Thomas

I always compare farming to being in the music industry, especially being an artist because you never know what the market's going…

— Sara Evans

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual…

— Andre Malraux

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures…

— Damien Hirst

I need an artist to be a dog. You know what I'm saying? I need an artist to think for themselves. I…

— Benny the Butcher

What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think…

— Salman Rushdie

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that…

— Kurt Wagner

Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They…

— Ludwig von Mises

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

— Paul Klee

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change

— William S. Burroughs

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

— Grace Slick

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

— Maurizio Cattelan

“...most art mistakes itself for the universal when it is momentary”

— Sarah Emily Miano

I tried by best to draw this and its not perfect...

— She's_gone

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

— Lance Henriksen

I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

— Peter Sotos

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

— Michelangelo

It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

— Pipilotti Rist

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

— Voltaire

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

— Robert Delaunay

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

— Kent Nerburn

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

— Andy Warhol

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

— Hans Hofmann