Artist Quotes · Page 297

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate…

— Wesley Snipes

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

— John Ruskin

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to…

— Julie Taymor

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

— Henri Matisse

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it.…

— Meg Cabot

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

— Prince Royce

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

— William Cowper

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are…

— Chris Carter

There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a…

— Tracey Emin

Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that…

— Elliott Hundley

“Keith Haring wrote " You see that's why I work like a dog and I worked like a dog all my life.…

— Keith Haring

I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best…

— Uwem Akpan

When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated,…

— Gates McFadden

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a…

— Ai Weiwei

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the…

— James Rosenquist

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

— Edward Hopper

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

— Issey Miyake

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...

— Bill Hicks

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

— Guy Kawasaki

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to…

— Michael Giacchino

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw…

— Nick Carter

“Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.”

— Armistead Maupin

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

— Gloria Steinem

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

— Marilyn Manson

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

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

“Art is the weapon Your imagination is the ammunition Stay dirty, and stay dangerous Create and destroy as you see fit”

— Gerard Way

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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

— Tulisa

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

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