Artist Quotes · Page 275

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

— Tulisa

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do…

— Paul Emsley

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular -…

— Jeffrey Deitch

As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

— Andy Grammer

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

— Natasha Rothwell

Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out…

— Laurence Graff

There are people working in arts organizations who feel that in recent years there has been a sacrifice of quality and excellence…

— Munira Mirza

I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I…

— Black Francis

“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous…

— David Hockney

Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where…

— George Saunders

I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece…

— Laura Mullen

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting…

— James Whistler

“was no stain left upon it. It was bright, and glistened. As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the…

— Oscar Wilde

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

— William Webb

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

— Allen Toussaint

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

— David Lynch

I believe a person who designs for the sheer passion of creativity can do so across media - it is like any…

— Gauri Khan

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...

— Eric Maisel

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I…

— Billy Porter

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

— Arne Glimcher

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist…

— Jared Leto

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

— Jeff Koons

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

— Donald Judd

I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

— Charli XCX

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent…

— Vivienne Westwood

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

— Cyril Connolly

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

— Brian Chesky

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

— Carl Andre

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

— Ben Nicholson

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of…

— Esaias Tegner