Artist Quotes · Page 374

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

— Alain de Botton

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making -…

— Peter Zumthor

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

— Carlisle Floyd

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

— Annie Dillard

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

— Francois Delsarte

Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at…

— Wendy Starland

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

— Ian McDiarmid

I don't feel like my sound is similar to any female artist that's out right now, so I definitely feel like we…

— Megan Thee Stallion

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun…

— James Madison

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good…

— India.Arie

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of…

— C. S. Lewis

Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.…

— Storm Jameson

In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle…

— Toni Morrison

There was a time in my career when I felt like I wasn't being true to myself. I was being moulded into…

— Madison Beer

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of…

— Lynda Barry

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

— Vladimir Nabokov

24 hours a day, I'm thinking about what we can do with this artist, what I can do myself over here, and…

— Jay Park

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

— George Lucas

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at…

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it…

— Mark Foster

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.

— Prince

The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

— Bruce Cockburn

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen…

— Michel Leiris

If I didn't find art valuable, I would stop doing my work and only work for justice.

— Zoe Kazan

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

— Tyga

In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

— Kaskade

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film…

— LeCrae

It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.

— Alex Grey

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

— Paul Strisik

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

— J. W. N. Sullivan

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

— Dwight Yoakam

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans…

— Adrian Marcel

I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.

— Piers Morgan

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

— Yanni

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

— Petrarch

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow up.

— Pablo Picasso