Artist Quotes · Page 361

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

— Anonymous

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to…

— Blake Shelton

Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

— Tink

If the arts are in peril, we must do our small part to to fight the good fight and protect and preserve.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

— Munira Mirza

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and…

— Frank Stella

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

— Saul Bellow

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

— Marcel Proust

Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that.…

— Daryl Hall

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,…

— James Joyce

I think that's what so exquisite and unique about New York, it's a city that allows you to hone your craft as…

— Nina Arianda

“Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would…

— Gary D. Schmidt

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max…

— Max Ernst

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found…

— Friedrich Schiller

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would…

— Wyndham Lewis

I've got a brother who works for the Red Cross, another brother is working with the homeless in France, some who work…

— Tom Bateman

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have…

— Melanie Martinez

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

— Peter Sotos

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is…

— JR

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

— Aldous Huxley

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a…

— Steven Sebring

Qawaali is the art, that's in my soul. It's the ground. Everything else is a passing season - wind, rain, sunshine.

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

— Ted Godwin

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

— Winston Churchill

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

— Wanda Koop

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

— Shawn Mendes

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of…

— Mary Schmich

I am so blessed to do what I love to do, but becoming a solo artist terrified me!

— LeToya Luckett

“If you are an artist who pays too much attention this system and its politics, you are in deep trouble because you…

— John Seed

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness…

— Anonymous

I find being an adult very difficult. Being an adult artist, Asian American, incredibly difficult. Or trying, anyway.

— Min Jin Lee

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

— Bill Griffith

'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

— Oscar Wilde

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

— Frida Kahlo

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon,…

— Henrik Vibskov

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.

— Kim Gordon

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

— John Dewey

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in…

— Siri Hustvedt