Artist Quotes · Page 323

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

— Salman Rushdie

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not…

— Gertrude Stein

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

— Itzhak Perlman

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

— Dave Grohl

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

— Lee Clow

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

— Kathy Mattea

“Great art is difficult," Caleb said. After a few moments, he said, "But I don't understand why it has to be so…

— Kevin Wilson

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is…

— Lucian Freud

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself…

— Yayoi Kusama

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether…

— Judy Chicago

The biggest possible thing that we're trying to do is change the conversation about what it means to be a working artist…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul…

— Isadora Duncan

Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a…

— David Mumford

Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of…

— Ai Weiwei

That's what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.

— Tierra Whack

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets…

— Daniel Tosh

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

— George Plimpton

“A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit…”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

— Larissa Sansour

When we released 'Chaos A.D' it was really hard for a metal artist to survive. Everything was grunge. Everywhere you looked was…

— Max Cavalera

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

— Neil MacGregor

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

— John Updike

It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what…

— Angelina Jolie

Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what…

— Bill Cosby

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you…

— Ann Patchett

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

— Willem de Kooning

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

— Lawren Harris

People who aren't artists don't think about creativity and art; they think about money.

— James Arthur

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

— Sergei Bongart

I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

— Rita Ora

“Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft.”

— Ed Catmull

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

— David Byrne

I haven't sold one painting. I have either given them as gifts or just kept them. It's like babies you know. It's,…

— Shavo Odadjian

Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

— Mark Linkous

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

— Michelangelo

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

— Rei Kawakubo