Artist Quotes · Page 197

Tom the cat how did I do on this drawing :)

— Brianna Ramos

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

— Jonathan Franzen

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

— Antony Gormley

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

— Nas

“Art is the weapon. Your imagination is the ammunition.”

— Frank Iero

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

— Vivek Shraya

“Art is dead, but the student is necrophiliac.”

— Internationale situationniste

I've slowly become more comfortable as an artist and as a person.

— Kirstin Maldonado

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience.

— Puneet Issar

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

— Lynn Nottage

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

— Tracey Moffatt

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

— Anonymous

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize…

— Maurice Blondel

I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows.…

— Narada Michael Walden

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business…

— Robert Menzies

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and…

— Emm Gryner

Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political…

— Lewis Hyde

I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I…

— Amy Sillman

Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a…

— Glen Keane

The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way…

— Kanye West

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to…

— Auguste Rodin

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

— John Lennon

You need the art in order to love the life.

— Nicholson Baker

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

— Octavio Paz

Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.

— Taika Waititi

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

— Martin Freeman

Great trouble breeds great art, I think.

— Jesmyn Ward

I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was - I survived Def Jam.

— Black Thought

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

— Douglas Lockwood

“Art is the closest thing I have to faith.”

— Abigail Boyd

Entertainment and art are not isolated

— Martin Kippenberger

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— Pablo Picasso

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

— Reese Witherspoon

“Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

A good artist is a bad artist who never gave up.

— Anonymous

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

— Gertrude Atherton