Artist Quotes · Page 301

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

— Natalia Kills

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

— Jeff Koons

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

— Donald Judd

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

— Carl Andre

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just…

— Alessia Cara

“We are but masterpieces waiting to happen, searching for our inspiration.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

— Karen Kain

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

— Moby

I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow…

— Georg Baselitz

“Dada demonstrated that a society that had lost respect was no longer in a position to demand that the artist adhere to…

— Marc Dachy

We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are…

— Simon McBurney

I was keen to challenge this vernacular as the role of the photojournalist was changing, and images were becoming urgent and more…

— Michael Salu

“You're telling me that because of the Internet, and the availability of every experience, every whim, every tool, sudden everyone's an artist?…

— Meg Wolitzer

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be…

— L.A. Reid

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else…

— Jean Cocteau

I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I…

— Nicki Minaj

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

— Scott Kahn

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.

— Noelle Stevenson

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

— Tanya Saracho

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

— Flume

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

— Peggy Guggenheim

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

— Marko Djurdjevic

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If someone wants to think what I do is somewhat artistic, that's fine, but I'm not looking to be necessarily labeled an…

— Ken Wahl

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a…

— Jerry Pinkney

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

— Brian Aldiss

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

— Frank Norris

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life…

— Brandon Boyd

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

— Abe Ajay

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

— Amy Ray

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me…

— Norbert Leo Butz

“We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!”

— William T. Vollmann

Collage is an important part of my everyday life. I always did it kind of secretly but then started my blog where…

— Laura Restrepo

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

— Simon de Pury

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

— Rabindranath Tagore

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

— Robert Genn

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

— Melissa Brown

“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about…

— Oscar Wilde