Artist Quotes · Page 320

An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.

— Ruth Asawa

I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.

— Misty Copeland

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart.…

— Bill Gaither

I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.

— Ricky Gervais

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

— Daniel Bell

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

— Hedda Sterne

“A person's face goes in your eyes and down you arms and into your fingers, and that's how you draw.”

— Amy Gordon

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at…

— Paul Weller

“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art…

— Alain de Botton

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of…

— Annie Dillard

I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead…

— Kim Gordon

“Putting art on the walls of your home or body is a very important decision to make, and one not to be…

— Cary G. Weldy

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory…

— Harold Rosenberg

We definitely classify things in order to get closer to what we believe in - so it serves a purpose to really…

— Robin Pecknold

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of…

— Anonymous

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

— Plato

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

— Andy Warhol

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

— Beck

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and…

— Jon Secada

For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.”

— Kamand Kojouri

TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

— Yvonne Strahovski

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

— Bebe Rexha

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

— Leo Tolstoy

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

— Jessica Alba

There's a stability in being a side person that can be kind of dangerous if you also want to be an artist…

— Amanda Shires

[Sculpturing] didn't stick with me. I never felt I wanted to go on with that.

— Warren MacKenzie

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

— Elizabeth Janeway

We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.

— Renzo Gracie

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

— Albert Camus

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

— Eric Drooker

A lot of people like structure, so there's definitely a risk with being an artist that a lot of people aren't really…

— Ravyn Lenae

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

— Julie Andrews

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

— Bill Jay