Artist Quotes · Page 369

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

— Jim James

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing…

— Billy Connolly

“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic,…

— Don Winslow

All I ever wanted to be was an artist, and now I'm an artist with an album of the year.

— Raye

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

— Arthur Jones

My stepfather was in the navy, so I got to know a side of Chile that is not what you would expect…

— Sebastian Lelio

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it…

— Mahesh Bhatt

It's easy to get into habitual ways of drawing things and I'm as much guilty of this as anyone else - after…

— Bryan Talbot

But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself,…

— Jeff Vespa

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete…

— Agnes Martin

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant…

— Roberto Burle Marx

In terms of covers, it's always nice to do ones that aren't actually getting played by the original artist anymore. I just…

— Scott Hutchison

“I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art.…

— Ernest Rutherford

June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible.…

— Audre Lorde

“But then, we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves. The money man tells himself that by getting rich he is actually enriching…

— William Landay

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

— Kate Bush

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.”

— Pat Conroy

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

— Julian Beever

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

— Stephen King

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

— Christian Scriver

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an…

— Meghan Trainor

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

— Eugene Delacroix

“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the…

— Paul Cezanne

If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

— Guru Randhawa

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself…

— A. Y. Jackson

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

— Phil Foglio

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

— James Bay

“An artist is someone who makes art;only artist can create a work of art.”

— ASAID

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

— John Ruskin

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

— Maxwell Perkins

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

— Michael Ondaatje

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

— Kelly Rowland

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

— Maurice Sendak

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

— Anton Chekhov

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.

— Paul Cezanne