Artist Quotes · Page 299

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

— Toni Morrison

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

— Jeff Koons

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

— Carl Maria von Weber

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

— Nick Rhodes

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

— Ralph Richardson

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

— W. Somerset Maugham

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

— Asger Jorn

The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social…

— Thomas Jefferson

I want people to know about these visionary artists. I want people to know what they stand for and (that) they are…

— Janelle Monae

I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do.…

— Beth Simone Noveck

Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone…

— Benito Mussolini

I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old…

— Bill Reid

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems…

— Roy Lichtenstein

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When…

— Beverly Sills

I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from…

— Warren MacKenzie

And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

— Helena Rubinstein

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have…

— Charley Pride

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

— M.I.A

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

— Fernando Perez

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

— Aristotle

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

— Nick Hornby

“A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...”

— Anonymous

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

— John Maeda

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

— Chris Martin

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from…

— Kanye West

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

— Francis Ford Coppola

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my…

— Frank Frazetta

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

— Scott Avett

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

— Stanley Kubrick

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as…

— Raekwon

It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative.

— Karen Civil

I would definitely say I'm predominantly a pop artist, obviously, but my music is different. It's not just top-40-radio-type music.

— Madison Beer

“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to…

— Hunter Reveur

As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to…

— Khalid

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

— Gary Clark, Jr

It is like any other work of art. It is and never can be changed. Behind everything there is always The unknown…

— Randall Jarrell