Artist Quotes · Page 185

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

— Ang Lee

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

— William Lyon Phelps

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

— Robert Frost

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

— Damien Hirst

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

— Hans Hofmann

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

— Richard Yates

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

— Maria Popova

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very…

— Selena

“I shouldn't be held responsible for my acts, since I was a political idiot, an artist who could not distinguish between reality…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an…

— Roisin Murphy

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

— Tim O'Reilly

Every single artist is inspired by artists who have come before them. It's sort of a fun, beautiful sharing process.

— Olivia Rodrigo

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

— Noah Taylor

No artist from my industry has ever supported me, but all technicians have been on my side.

— Shilpa Shinde

“your art is not about how many people like your work your art is about if your heart likes your work if…

— Rupi Kaur

“To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and…

— William Rotsler

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality…

— Herbert Read

“Svetlana said that she identified with that Madonna more than with any other woman in any other painting. She kept asking me…

— Elif Batuman

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love…

— Frank Zappa

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time…

— Martin Buber

When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced.…

— Kelly Clarkson

Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

— Willa Cather

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

— Herbert Read

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

— Georges Braque

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

— Leonard Baskin

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

— Whoopi Goldberg

I love art, but I've never bought an artwork or even considered it.

— Charles Ray

Finding my voice as an artist was not at all challenging.

— Sargun Mehta

“Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.”

— Fennel Hudson

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

“...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...”

— John Geddes

This picture you see is nothing like the one I painted of me.

— Counting Crows

“The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose.”

— Kyle Muntz

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

— Fernando Pessoa

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

— Clarence H. Burns

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

— Michelangelo