Artist Quotes · Page 336

“I know we can't all stay here forever so I want to write my words on the face of today and they'll…

— Shannon Hoon

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're…

— Carmen Ejogo

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

— Jonny Lang

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

— Carl Andre

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had…

— Ellen Forney

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

— Gunter Brus

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

— Maurice Ravel

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life,…

— John D. Rockefeller III

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist.…

— Charles de Lint

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk,…

— Joe Lando

“Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity of an artist,…

— Matthew Fox

It's a beautiful thing when the young guys grew up off you, or they embrace you and respect your craft. They always…

— Jadakiss

I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's…

— Joss Whedon

“Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time…

— Esther Verhoef

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with…

— Pablo Picasso

“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's…

— Dianne Reeves

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

— Marie Windsor

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable

— Liz Phair

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”

— Mark Simpson

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

— Erica Jong

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

— Galina Ulanova

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

— Sarah Churchwell

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

— Adam West

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the…

— Robert Wilson

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young…

— Hozier

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

— Edouard Manet

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

— Edward Abbey

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

— Adam Gopnik

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and…

— Jeff Koons

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

— Charles Tart

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

— Georges Vantongerloo

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

— Courtney Barnett

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

— Jeffrey Smart

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no…

— Oscar Wilde