Artist Quotes · Page 236

There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what…

— Andrea Zittel

“It is not until you draw something, whether it is an object, a building or an activity, that you really begin to…

— Martin Salisbury

Just because you're an artist doesn't give you an excuse to be an asshole.

— Miley Cyrus

I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what…

— Ja Rule

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They…

— Robert Barry

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

— Edward Hopper

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about…

— Jared Leto

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at…

— Virginia Woolf

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the…

— Oscar Wilde

Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be…

— Twyla Tharp

When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not…

— Gerhard Richter

As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should…

— Sreenivasan

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one…

— Jason Robert Brown

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry,…

— Andrew W.K

As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music... and you know,…

— Pauly Shore

“Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do…

— Janet Jackson

For an artist it is important to show what your mood is at that particular moment.

— Sergei Polunin

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is…

— Hubert de Givenchy

I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to.

— Sean Scully

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

— George E. P. Box

I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.

— Jared Leto

“Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you”

— Ginnetta Correli

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way…

— Sarah Curran

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

— Harry Belafonte

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

— Kehinde Wiley

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Anyone who asks if graffiti is really art should be cast out into a field, because they're Neanderthals.

— Goldie

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

— Julianne Hough

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

— Shepard Fairey

I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.

— Marcel Duchamp

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

— Willem de Kooning

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else…

— Carl Andre

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

— Seth Godin

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

— Peter Marino

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show…

— Mary Gauthier

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

— Dianne Reeves

If being two-faced is an art form, I couldn't count how many fucking artists I'd know.

— Anonymous