Artist Quotes · Page 252

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

— Chuck D

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow…

— Talib Kweli

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

— Bill Ayers

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good…

— Josh Peck

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method…

— Claude Monet

No artist gets work through an agency and it's only working artists who keep getting more work.

— Sana Khan

“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.”

— Matthew Gallaway

I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when…

— Paul Feyerabend

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to…

— Samuel R. Delany

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a…

— Gloria Naylor

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain…

— Jello Biafra

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that…

— Alice Walker

No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow.…

— Gerry Spence

Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to…

— Millard Sheets

I think what happened in the last 10 or 15 years in the art market is that all the players - and…

— Diego Cortez

I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.

— Samoa Joe

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

— Mike Svob

“O you who honor art and science both, who are these souls whose dignity has kept their way of being, separate from…

— Dante Canto IV Inferno

The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.

— Armand Trousseau

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

— Brandi Carlile

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”

— Steven Magee

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the…

— Common

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest…

— Thomas King

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

— Dasha Zhukova

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

— Antony Gormley

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

— Henri Matisse

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

— Todd Haynes

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

— Wassily Kandinsky

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing… Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Ill draw you a picture, a picture with a twist. Ill draw it with a razor blade. Ill draw it on my…

— Amber

I really enjoy house painting - especially the trim work. People think I'm crazy, but it's more fun than using the roller…

— James Doohan

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine.

— Clairo

“Art school is a small island of acceptance in a vast sea of disinterest.”

— Ted Orland

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

— Matthew Collings