Artist Quotes · Page 258

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

— Urs Fischer

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became…

— Fantastic Negrito

“Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.”

— Anonymous

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

— Allen Ginsberg

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

— Melanie Fiona

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

— Timbaland

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

— David Hockney

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

— Julia Cameron

The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was…

— Lucio Russo

There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have…

— Chet Atkins

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents…

— Julian Casablancas

I think with independent music, an artist gets to express himself and his creativity. I guess thats what the fans can relate…

— Harrdy Sandhu

“MY INVOLVEMENT IN CREATIVE WORK PURSUITS, IN PARTICULAR, SCULPTURE, IS A STATE OF MIND. IT IS A CONSCIOUSNESS, AN ACUTE AWARENESS OF…

— Chong Fah Cheong

There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians…

— Maynard James Keenan

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish.…

— Federico Fellini

I think that for the five-year-old watching MTV right now, Lady Gaga is going to be an iconic person. In 20 years,…

— Beth Ditto

As a freshman Member of Congress, I am amazed by the enormous talent of artwork that is on display in our Nation's…

— George Santos

I want to stay consistent and drop an album every year, so in the long run, you can see that I'm an…

— Riff Raff

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what…

— John Guare

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

— Hans Arp

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

— Jackson Pollock

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

— Rollo May

I was so fixated on being a wife and being there for someone else that I kind of neglected who I was…

— Keyshia Cole

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

— John Cassavetes

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

— Laura Harris

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in…

— Pablo Picasso

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great…

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

— Leon Battista Alberti

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I…

— Toyin Odutola

“Live is likes a canvas.. you are the one who put the colour on that.. so put it properly or you may…

— AidaKhalida

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

— Sol LeWitt

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

— Auguste Rodin

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

— Peter Wright

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

— Paulo Coelho

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

— Annie Dillard

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

— Pablo Picasso

“Producers problems is in need of vocalist and Vocalist problems is in need of a Studio.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put…

— J. Cole

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

— Lewis Mumford

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who…

— Johann Peter Eckermann