Artist Quotes · Page 381

“Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.”

— Anne Rice

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was…

— Warren MacKenzie

Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup.

— Anonymous

Being an independent artist myself with my own company, that's more money for me.

— Trina

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

— Ai Weiwei

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible…

— Jamila Woods

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

— Oscar Wilde

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along…

— Lynne Rae Perkins

“Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And…

— Alexander Pope

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true…

— Serj Tankian

For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an…

— Chrissie Hynde

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm…

— Eric Avery

I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of…

— Peter London

My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to…

— Ana Mendieta

While I hope that people like my work, I don't think an artist should be afraid of ­people not liking his work.

— Badshah

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

— Anonymous

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

— LL Cool J

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”

— Donald E. Knuth

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

— Nathan Sawaya

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

— John Paul Caponigro

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

— Keanu Reeves

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is…

— Shweta Tripathi

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

— E. B. White

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

— Genesis P-Orridge

It's so difficult as a female artist to make actual money, in my experience.

— Zoe Buckman

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

— Yungblud

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

— Vivienne Westwood

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

— Robert Henri

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

— Jack Kerouac

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like…

— Tom Robbins

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

— Patti Smith

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

— Thomas Mann

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

— Edith Hamilton

I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.

— Lil Baby

My mother, Sarah Fitzgerald, is Irish and a portrait photographer, and my English father, Michael Callaby, was an artist.

— Tara Fitzgerald