Artist Quotes · Page 333

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

— Talib Kweli

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

— Anonymous

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

— Kathleen Hanna

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

— Vivienne Westwood

“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it…

— Vincent Gallo

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.

— Britney Spears

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

— FKA twigs

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry…

— James Freeman Clarke

“The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and…

— Oscar Wilde

Perhaps the world of art is just one vast pretence, in which we all take part since, after all, there is no…

— Roger Scruton

I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,…

— Joe Perry

I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art…

— Jan Brett

I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also,…

— Tinsel Korey

“Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is…

— Eugene Carriere

Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie…

— Kevin Smith

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

— Seth Godin

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

— Caio Fonseca

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and…

— Roger Scruton

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

— Morton Feldman

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not…

— Bono

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and…

— Lydia M. Child

“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

— Natalia Makarova

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the…

— Soulja Boy

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

— Marina Abramovic

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you…

— David Draiman

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his…

— Orson Welles

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

— Auguste Rodin

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

— Bette Davis

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

— Edgar Degas

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

— Theodore Robinson

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or…

— Erica Jong

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and…

— Stella Vine

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my…

— Bil Keane

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

— Bruno Mars

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

— Neil Welliver