Artist Quotes · Page 304

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

— Allan Kaprow

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no…

— Oscar Wilde

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't,…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

— Joseph Brodsky

I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good…

— Alia Shawkat

It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so…

— Rodney Atkins

I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.'…

— Chance The Rapper

I've long been a fan of Adrian Piper's work. I find her performance pieces moving in their willingness to lean toward the…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even…

— Viktor Shklovsky

I've made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the…

— Erika M. Anderson

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts;…

— Paul Klee

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or…

— Tyler Hilton

Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat…If you keep going long enough you will always get back to…

— Nikki Sixx

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was…

— Ernest Hemingway

All children are artists,the problem is how to remain and artist as they grow up

— Pablo Picasso

I can't tell you how scary it can be for an artist to be in a space where they don't know where…

— Rohit Saraf

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

— Carrie Coon

Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

— M. Night Shyamalan

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

— Shinichi Suzuki

“You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.”

— R.K. Lilley

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to…

— Cheyenne Kimball

I've watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were.

— James Murphy

The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.

— Tove Lo

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

— Mencius

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

— Sara Genn

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

— Bruce Lee

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

— Irvine Welsh

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all…

— Paul Young

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the…

— Francis Bacon

“To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself.”

— Anonymous

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

— Henry Moore

“...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...”

— John Geddes

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

— Hans Hofmann

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people…

— Laura Owens

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times,…

— Dawn Richard

As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and…

— Lindsey Buckingham