Artist Quotes · Page 358

“You have to feel what's right, and sometimes what's right in art is sad.”

— Anonymous

Why is love like art ? U see the flaws but the flaws are what makes it beautiful but some just see…

— Miranda

I don't think I'm good at anything, but I'm good at painting. It's one thing I can do better than I do…

— Fearne Cotton

I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to have to accept me or just not…

— Astro

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

— Boy George

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

— Woody Allen

Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the…

— Jasper Johns

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

— Minoru Yamasaki

I've experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia - when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being…

— Justin Tranter

“I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of…

— Jarod Kintz

We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back…

— Ernest Becker

The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured,…

— Ben Shahn

It's really hard to be an artist and put out records and put your heart out there. It's such a gamble, and…

— Diane Birch

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This…

— Steve Vai

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod…

— Paul Di Filippo

In the future, an artist will be able to perform for the entire world in one date. For the fan, it will…

— Troy Carter

All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different.

— Henry Glassie

I must say that kids make it a lot harder process, especially having to live the life of a traveling recording artist.

— Guy Sebastian

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

— Fred Tomaselli

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in…

— Friedrich Schiller

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

— Donald Judd

“He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at…

— Anaïs Nin

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

— Albert Camus

I'm coming to the artist with a smash. I'm like, "Yo this is a smash. We've got to go in."

— DJ Khaled

“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”

— Oscar Wilde

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

— Harry Seidler

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create…

— Madonna Ciccone

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

— Walter Benjamin

American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.

— Pontus Hulten

“Art is just escapism." Liam muttered. "It's not escapism. It's the truth.”

— Kaisa Winter

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

— Warren G. Bennis

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

— Master P

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to…

— Michael Jackson

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

— Anthony Hopkins

Sometimes an artist can be good and they don't get the response or the attention that they deserve.

— Koffee

Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the…

— Brett Gelman

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

— Charles Atlas