Artist Quotes · Page 312

Nothing frustrates me about the art world. It is a lovely place. There are many daft things that amuse me about it…

— Grayson Perry

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

— Talib Kweli

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

— Robert Motherwell

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior…

— Fernando Pessoa

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

— Paul Strisik

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

— J. W. N. Sullivan

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

— Dwight Yoakam

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

— Yanni

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They…

— Carlos Santana

Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their…

— Joshua Reynolds

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a…

— Clive Bell

I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents,…

— Lady Gaga

There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this…

— Norbert Bisky

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majorityis material. When these…

— Paul Klee

“Peter is still amazed at the degree to which a certain widening gyre of accolades can change an artist's work, literally change…

— Michael Cunningham

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to…

— James Franco

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans…

— Adrian Marcel

I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.

— Piers Morgan

Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

— Kaskade

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film…

— LeCrae

It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.

— Alex Grey

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.

— Prince

Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it…

— Mark Foster

The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

— Bruce Cockburn

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen…

— Michel Leiris

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

— Tyga

If I didn't find art valuable, I would stop doing my work and only work for justice.

— Zoe Kazan

In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.

— Walter Darby Bannard

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

— Vladimir Nabokov

24 hours a day, I'm thinking about what we can do with this artist, what I can do myself over here, and…

— Jay Park

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at…

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

— George Lucas

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”

— Donald E. Knuth

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

— Nathan Sawaya

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

— Keanu Reeves

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

— John Paul Caponigro

Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup.

— Anonymous