Artist Quotes · Page 346

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist…

— Jared Leto

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

— Arne Glimcher

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent…

— Vivienne Westwood

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

— Cyril Connolly

I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

— Charli XCX

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens…

— Andres Segovia

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my…

— Jesse McCartney

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the…

— Oscar Wilde

I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the…

— Lady Gaga

It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of…

— Alfred Stieglitz

The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living…

— Mark Foster

I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable…

— Jon Richardson

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal…

— Agnes Martin

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

— Jeff Koons

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

— Donald Judd

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

— Brian Chesky

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

— Ben Nicholson

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

— Carl Andre

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

— Osamu Dazai

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

— Madonna Ciccone

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

— Brad Holland

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

— Big Freedia

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of…

— Esaias Tegner

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

— Criss Jami

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

— Jim Rowe

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

— Joe Bradley

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

— Trevor Paglen

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

— Richard Clayderman

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

— Kate Millett

We do things the way we do them and we do them unashamedly. It's our art. If you don't like it, that's…

— Jim Root