Artist Quotes · Page 219

“An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

— Jose Bergamin

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

— Ben Lerner

“Maybe paint-thinner is the key to ambition.”

— Daniel Fritz

Behind every big artist, there's a big team.

— J Balvin

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

— Gabrielle Roy

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

— Maurice Sendak

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

— Sean Scully

The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I…

— John Lurie

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

— Antony Gormley

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very…

— Julia Cameron

All artists, no matter who they are, have always come into contact with criticism. No one's gonna like what you do 100…

— Erika Jayne

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

— Edward Weston

“Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.”

— Christoph Heinrich

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

— Dolly Parton

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

— Bob Proctor

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person…

— Ray Conniff

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as…

— Fred Gwynne

I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs.…

— Poo Bear

You have the rap industry trying to stay above water by giving the people what they want, but then you have the…

— Rahki

I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own…

— Charli XCX

“SUCCESS, IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID, means different things to different people. Measured by the throngs of visitors who are moved to…

— Benjamin Blech

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving…

— John Ruskin

If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's…

— Anita Elberse

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

— Larry Rivers

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

— Siobhan Fahey

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

— Andrew Loomis

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

— Gustave Moreau

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

— Willa Cather

His whole coast is full of pin-up paper rockstars

— Mayday Parade

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

— Sheldon Vanauken

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

— Donald Judd

“Art was the only woman Picasso loved.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

— Evelyn Underhill

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

— Martha Graham

I am a touring artist - I get a kick out of it, like, a huge kick.

— Cher Lloyd

“Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.”

— Jacqueline Patricks

There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.

— Megan Mullally