Artist Quotes · Page 353

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

— Robyn

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent”

— Oscar Wilde

“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

— Dominic Smith

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

Even as an art teacher and someone very involved in the arts, I never knew what art therapy even was.

— Karen Pence

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

— Dave Barry

Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, is a U.K. electronica artist whose diverse tastes have helped fuel a lengthy discography.

— Anthony Fantano

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

— David Gilmour

“Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a…

— Michael Audain

My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off…

— Marc Chagall

Life has to keep going, so you can either be a victim the rest of your life and let it drag you…

— Jeff Ross

That was always the top martial artist - the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I…

— Joseph Benavidez

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must…

— Meher Baba

I had the urge to face my own limitation, and I needed to be bigger. I needed to be more professional and…

— Yasmine Hamdan

The fact that the jazz and classical worlds seem to struggle with the idea of an artist being both commercially successful and…

— Laufey

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to…

— Rolf Harris

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

— John David Washington

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for…

— Tyga

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could…

— Damien Hirst

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

— Ben Eine

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…

— John Gardner

I'm really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.

— Rich Brian

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual…

— Wes Nisker

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

— Joseph Conrad

“I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy. I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.”

— Lana Del Rey

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

— Marjane Satrapi

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

— Gerhard Richter

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

— Glenn Ligon

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

— Paul G

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

— Bruce Pavitt

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

— Lewis Mumford

I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I…

— Taylor Townsend

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all…

— David Bowie

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they…

— Julie Taymor

I think Banksy is a very cool artist, and I respect his social messages.

— Kim Rossmo

“The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.”

— Banksy

Trying to launch a career as an artist is like trying to run through a crowd holding hands with five people. It's…

— LP

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

— Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis