Artist Quotes · Page 198

As much as I'm an artist, I consider myself a business person of sorts.

— Ariana DeBose

I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels.

— Kyle

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

— Maya Lin

“Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger.”

— George R.R. Martin

All men are creative but few are artists.

— Paul Goodman

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Korea, I'm not a K-pop artist, I'm just an artist.

— Eric Nam

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear…

— Paul Klee

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

— Russell Simmons

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

— Willem de Kooning

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

— Tori Amos

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

— Vincent Van Gogh

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that…

— Seth Godin

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you,…

— Pablo Picasso

As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet…

— John Luther Adams

A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the…

— Kool Moe Dee

I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a…

— Jamila Woods

“The power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an…

— Pope John Paul II

“The artist should thus derive the freest possible inspiration from his dream images and strive toward a "super realism" in which the…

— Jostein Gaarder

I feel very grateful that for some reason I was raised to believe that I had permission to explore the creative world.…

— Antony Hegarty

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

— Lou Reed

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

— Melanie Martinez

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.

— Danielle LaPorte

If you can't draw something, just draw it.

— Dieter Roth

There are so many artists that have inspired me.

— J Balvin

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.

— Sam Heughan

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

— Andre Malraux

As an artista, I'm not always beautiful.

— Heart Evangelista

“The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

— Julia Cameron

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

— Laura Nyro

It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.

— Brian Froud

Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.

— Genesis P-Orridge

“In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.”

— Adorno, Theodor W