Artist Quotes · Page 218

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

— Christian Bale

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

— Martin Firrell

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

— William Baziotes

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

— Derek Luke

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

— Yoko Ono

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

— Pharrell Williams

Miley is an artist, I will say that.

— Tish Cyrus

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

— Alex Grey

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

— Fernando Botero

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

— Milton Resnick

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

— Nile Rodgers

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

— Laurieann Gibson

“Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The…

— Dennis Etchison

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

— Michael Horse

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

— Salvador Dali

I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not…

— Gerhard Richter

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same…

— Kathleen Raine

I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked.…

— Ronda Rousey

With the artists that I named - Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna, every time they come out with a new album, something's…

— Sisqo

I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to…

— Sean Lennon

When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say…

— Kehinde Wiley

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement…

— Chinua Achebe

Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an…

— Gerhard Richter

The role of the artist is to not look away.

— Akira Kurosawa

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

— William Shakespeare

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

— Belly

I've always gotten along best with artists.

— Jerry Hall

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

— Jeff Tweedy

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

— Anais Nin

Good business is the best art of all.

— Andy Warhol

“As many artists know, dark beginnings lead to colorful ends.”

— Zachary Koukol

“the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful.”

— Stefan Zweig

Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.

— Mark Kostabi

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.

— Frederick Lenz

“Great artists make the entire world their home.”

— Chaim Potok

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

— Ronald Reagan

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

I want to be the sort of artist that uplifts people.

— Griff