Artist Quotes · Page 364

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

— Richard Stengel

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a…

— Tavares Strachan

I'd have loved to be a painter, but I'm very mercurial, so it wouldn't have worked.

— Taylor Russell

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

— Mark Tobey

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

— David Hockney

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.

— Wu Guanzhong

Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

— Carine Roitfeld

The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And…

— Eric Drooker

If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal…

— Aimee Mann

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is…

— Claude Monet

There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman.…

— Lauren Mayberry

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function…

— Bat for Lashes

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him.…

— Paul Dano

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to…

— Balthus

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris…

— Madeleine L'Engle

To be able to create an album where you are in complete control of your own work is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for…

— Nadine Coyle

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

— Vladimir Kramnik

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

— Marina Abramovic

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

— Ron Silver

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

— George Edward Woodberry

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

— Louise Bourgeois

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

— Questlove

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

— Georges Braque

“the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way,…

— David Sedaris

“We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.”

— Philip K. Dick

“Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time...”

— Thomas Bernhard

“bebop at its core: It wasn’t just art for art’s sake but art that could show contempt for its audience.”

— Peter Pullman

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the…

— Cecily Brown

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

— Edgar Degas

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

— Domino Kirke

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're…

— Jeff Tweedy

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

— Frank Auerbach

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

— Claes Oldenburg

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an…

— Urs Fischer

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

— Henry Moore

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

— Oscar Wilde

I knew I wanted to be an artist early on, but I decided to seriously pursue the profession when I auditioned for…

— Corey Hawkins