Artist Quotes · Page 242

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell…

— Corey Taylor

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

— Simon Schama

I'm so obsessed with the idea of creating a mixtape that feels really authentic to each artist.

— Lola Young

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

— Chris Lowe

“She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical…

— Jan Greenberg

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes...

— Eric Maisel

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

— Adam Ant

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was…

— David Salle

For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact…

— Isamu Noguchi

To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners,…

— Robert Sheaffer

Our job is we work for the artist and we service the artists fans. And the better service and the better company…

— Michael Rapino

I've met so many amazing fans in the couple of weeks since the release of my second album, and everyone keeps telling…

— Halsey

There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you…

— Philip Guston

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.…

— John Ortberg

So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff -…

— Allison Mackie

I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps…

— Kit Williams

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

— Michael Scott

The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together.

— Michael Feinstein

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

— Martin Mull

I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to…

— Adam Sandler

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused…

— Dieter Rams

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

— Kehinde Wiley

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures…

— William Blake

Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.

— Emily Robison

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

— Seth Godin

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

— Betty Goodwin

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

— Michael Scott

I like artists that tend to be more interested in reinventing themselves, in experimenting.

— Steven Wilson

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read…

— Mark Kostabi

“the artist sees things that normal people are in too big a hurry to see.”

— Anne Charnock

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

— Yayoi Kusama

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

— Susan Sontag

I think that every time a country artist steps outside of the country boundary, it just brings more ears to us.

— Kelsea Ballerini

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

— Joseph Conrad

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

It's an artist's choice to speak up about social issues, but I think it's really important, and my favorite artists have spoken…

— Natalie Prass

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Life is like a collage. Its individual pieces are arranged to create harmony. Appreciate the artwork of your life.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

When I saw 'Hamilton,' there was so much information so fast, I had to keep up with it. I find that quality…

— Justin Peck