Artist Quotes · Page 257

“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”

— Tom Robbins

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to…

— Keith Jarrett

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

— Dorothy Parker

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell whether he knows it or not.”

— Steven Pressfield

Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in…

— Robert Christgau

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

— Christian Wiman

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in…

— Lucy Dacus

As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She…

— Anonymous

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third…

— Paul Gauguin

Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the…

— Ronald Rolheiser

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how…

— Aristotle

“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our…

— Peter Orner

Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the…

— Travis Scott

I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think…

— Stephen Fry

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they…

— Edvard Munch

I don't think, as an artist, you should be trying to make music for every moment of someone's day.

— JP Saxe

“I prioritize my creative pleasure. I enjoy expressing my artistic side and receive the gifts of doing so.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an…

— Robert Henri

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

— T Bone Burnett

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

— Pierre Boulez

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

— Plutarch

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

— Edith Hamilton

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

— Thomas Mann

I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.

— Lil Baby

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

— Jack Kerouac

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

— Robert Henri

Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like…

— Tom Robbins

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

— Patti Smith

My mother, Sarah Fitzgerald, is Irish and a portrait photographer, and my English father, Michael Callaby, was an artist.

— Tara Fitzgerald

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

— E. B. White

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

— Genesis P-Orridge

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is…

— Shweta Tripathi

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

— Vivienne Westwood

It's so difficult as a female artist to make actual money, in my experience.

— Zoe Buckman

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

— Yungblud

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is…

— George Bernard Shaw

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

— Banksy