Artist Quotes · Page 268

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your…

— N. K. Jemisin

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

— Rudolf Nureyev

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

— Dizzee Rascal

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

— Oscar Wilde

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

— John Ruskin

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

— Natasha Leggero

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...

— Leon Battista Alberti

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody…

— Alice Coltrane

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance…

— Lester Bangs

Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his…

— George Edward Woodberry

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say…

— Christopher Meloni

I'm Dominique Crenn. I'm a chef, entrepreneur, artist, poet, human being. I have three restaurants in San Francisco: Atelier Crenn, Bar Crenn…

— Dominique Crenn

Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand…

— Franz Grillparzer

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred…

— Anonymous

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be…

— Brandi Carlile

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I…

— Arshile Gorky

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining,…

— Willa Cather

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

“Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is…

— Giacomo Casanova

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

— Francis Bacon

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

— Gustave Flaubert

“With the holy touch of art, human life has become less lonely and more esthetical!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting…

— Richard Artschwager

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see…

— Tommy Lee

On the 'Blacks & Browns' record, it's me and Sad Boy. He's a Hispanic artist, and we're talking about what we got…

— YG

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he…

— Romare Bearden

“Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.”

— Andrew Levy

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

— George Ezra

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

— Josef Albers

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

— Patti Smith

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to…

— Gustave Courbet

“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

— A. Y. Jackson

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

— Tiko Kerr

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham