Artist Quotes · Page 263

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

— Henry David Thoreau

I live life. I experience things. I go through ups and downs, and so I express them creatively and artistically.

— Sky Blu

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

— Henrik Vibskov

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

— Robert Genn

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for…

— Charles Clarke

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

— Vivienne Westwood

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

— Billy Childish

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

— Anthony Caro

I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has…

— L.A. Reid

There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few…

— Lena Headey

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at…

— Pablo Picasso

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different,…

— Ludovico Einaudi

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do.…

— Vaclav Havel

I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started…

— Marina and the Diamonds

But you know, we have more hits than you can possibly think about. One of my personal favorite artists is the wonderful…

— Colin Mochrie

A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers…

— Robert Motherwell

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

— Jack White

I work with an amazing team - I have a stylist and a hairdresser and make-up artist who are always wondering what…

— Netta Barzilai

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

— Doseone

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

— Stephen Gardiner

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art.

— Jordan Fisher

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

— Ben Eine

I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I…

— Taylor Townsend

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

— Lewis Mumford

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all…

— David Bowie

“I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.”

— Django Wexler

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

— Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

Trying to launch a career as an artist is like trying to run through a crowd holding hands with five people. It's…

— LP

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they…

— Julie Taymor

I think Banksy is a very cool artist, and I respect his social messages.

— Kim Rossmo

“The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.”

— Banksy

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

— Cyril Connolly

“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.”

— David Sedaris

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of…

— Romeo Santos

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

— Joseph Conrad

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

— James Dean

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

— Jackson Pollock