Artist Quotes · Page 311

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

— Alain de Botton

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making -…

— Peter Zumthor

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

— Annie Dillard

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

— Carlisle Floyd

I don't feel like my sound is similar to any female artist that's out right now, so I definitely feel like we…

— Megan Thee Stallion

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

— Ian McDiarmid

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

— Francois Delsarte

Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at…

— Wendy Starland

“Steve toyed with the idea of sending his doodles to the artist’s agent. Perhaps this was his life’s calling and he’d make…

— Debbie Macomber

When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's…

— Robert Hilburn

My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in…

— Matthew Brannon

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty…

— John Keats

To me, James Harden is like basketball's Picasso - he's an artist whose work you respect, even if you don't always understand…

— Trevor Ariza

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever…

— Laozi

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope…

— Creed Bratton

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in…

— Jerry Saltz

“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.”

— Edmund Wilson

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

— Michelle Dean

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

— Domenico Gnoli

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

— Mary Gauthier

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

— Eric Gibbons

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

— David Mamet

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

— Camille Henrot

“Just as art is art regardless of the colors, a human being is so regardless of race.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to…

— Mika

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

— Peter Sunde

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

— Frank Ocean

“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.”

— Robert Rauschenberg

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

— Simon Cowell

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

— Lewis Mumford

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

— Andre Gide

After giving up being a session/touring drummer I decided to pursue this crazy dream I had of being a solo artist.

— G Flip

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

— Norman Granz

I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

— Mohsin Hamid

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

— Talib Kweli

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

— Henri Matisse

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

— Cam Gigandet

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on…

— Grandma Moses

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

— Tom Weston-Jones