Artist Quotes · Page 256

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

Being an independent artist myself with my own company, that's more money for me.

— Trina

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

— LL Cool J

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

— Anonymous

While I hope that people like my work, I don't think an artist should be afraid of ­people not liking his work.

— Badshah

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

— Gary Hume

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in…

— Edward Bond

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to…

— Dia Mirza

The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is…

— Donald Barthelme

“The individual artist is a medium for making representational and deeply meaningful symbols of the community’s collective consciousness, whether they are symbols…

— Inga Muscio

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But…

— Jane Seymour

“We all can’t paint like Van Gogh. We might not be the ones who found cure for cancer or invented flying shoes…

— Nesta Jojoe Erskine

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer's town. I moved here…

— Brett Young

I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just…

— George Thorogood

“When he worked on this painting, he felt sometimes as if he were flying, as if the world of galleries and parties…

— Hanya Yanagihara

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a…

— Serj Tankian

Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.”

— Anne Rice

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like…

— Immortal Technique

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was…

— Warren MacKenzie

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

— Esperanza Spalding

Artists from all over the world have had a lot of positive influence on me. Their works always inspire me.

— Jackson Wang

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it…

— Bridget Riley

“The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back.”

— Irving Stone

If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love.

— Gail Simone

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

— Charles Rosin

'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from…

— Greg Sestero

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it's really about coming together and creating bridges.

— Yasmine Hamdan

You have to come to terms with yourself as an artist and know what you do best.

— Keith Whitley

Everything evolves. I'll always sing ranchera, but as an artist, you want to explore, to do the most that you can.

— Vicente Fernandez

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.

— Ashton Sanders

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment.

— Ben Eine

“An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Elton John is a huge influence and an artist I've listened to since I was a little girl.

— Sara Bareilles

A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future

— Harvey Goldsmith