Artist Quotes · Page 237

“Intelligent and insightful at the same time, this is one of the earliest human expressions of art.”

— Rujuta Diwekar

The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?

— Daniel Kaluuya

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

— Mark Edward

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

— Andre Malraux

That's why art is so fantastic: It can keep being adapted to move with society's vision as well as the original.

— Rachel Zegler

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

— Sarah Dessen

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

— Alva Noto

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you…

— Seth Godin

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and…

— Linda Evangelista

I do make some drawings for wall pieces. I do work out some ideas for large-scale wall pieces where I have to…

— Robert Barry

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I…

— Tea Leoni

The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the…

— Anonymous

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred…

— Edvard Munch

Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that…

— Alex da Kid

“...I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because…

— Darian North

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

— Pierre Bonnard

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

— Arthur Miller

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that.…

— Del Shannon

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

— Jerry Saltz

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

— Eddy Grant

“The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")”

— Blaise Cendrars

What I'm realizing about myself as an artist is that I'm not about the glitz and the glam - I don't scream…

— Lola Young

As an artist, you hope you're speaking to the times, and the times are definitely speaking to you. There's no way to…

— Misha Green

I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got…

— Karunas

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or…

— John Baldessari

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Life is pure adventure & the sooner we realize that, the quicker we ll be able to treat life as art

— Anonymous

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

— Walter Russell

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit…

— Christian Keiber

“How does an artist look at the world? First, you figure out what's worth stealing, then you move on to the next…

— Austin Kleon

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

— Rainn Wilson

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

— Pierre Bonnard

“You'll understand the meaning in time. It's like a chemical -- you put it out there and the reaction that it creates…

— Guy Picciotto

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

— Katherine Dunn

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

— Don Meyer

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the…

— Curtis Jackson

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

— Darren Criss

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder