Artist Quotes · Page 345

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

— Edward Hopper

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

— William Cowper

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

— Prince Royce

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...

— Bill Hicks

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

— Issey Miyake

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

— Guy Kawasaki

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going…

— Edgar Degas

Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that…

— Jonah Lehrer

I know it is crazy, every time I release something now people say I am becoming more rough and tough. I guess…

— Ronan Keating

“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they…

— Hiromi

I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it…

— Dave McKean

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to…

— Steven Morrissey

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be…

— Orson Welles

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw…

— Nick Carter

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to…

— Michael Giacchino

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

“Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.”

— Armistead Maupin

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

— Marilyn Manson

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

— Gloria Steinem

“Art is the weapon Your imagination is the ammunition Stay dirty, and stay dangerous Create and destroy as you see fit”

— Gerard Way

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

— Natasha Rothwell

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

— W. Somerset Maugham

As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

— Andy Grammer

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular -…

— Jeffrey Deitch

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

— Tulisa

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do…

— Paul Emsley

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I…

— Billy Porter

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...

— Eric Maisel

I believe a person who designs for the sheer passion of creativity can do so across media - it is like any…

— Gauri Khan

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

— David Lynch

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

— Allen Toussaint

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

— William Webb