Artist Quotes · Page 389

“The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.”

— Banksy

Trying to launch a career as an artist is like trying to run through a crowd holding hands with five people. It's…

— LP

“I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.”

— Django Wexler

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

— Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.”

— David Sedaris

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

— Cyril Connolly

I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I…

— Taylor Townsend

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

— Lewis Mumford

There's an awful pressure on signed artists to make a hit song. But I never wanted to be an artist who created…

— Raye

To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist…

— Jackie Kennedy

“Remember that even if you have made a truly rotten piece of art, it may be a necessary stepping-stone to your next…

— Julia Cameron

Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious…

— Simon de Pury

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it…

— Melanie Fiona

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to…

— William Morris

While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no…

— Eric Maisel

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all…

— David Bowie

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

— Harold Town

“He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

— Kim Wilde

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and…

— Ron Parker

If an artist I liked disowned songs that meant a lot to me, I would be pretty hurt by that.

— Porter Robinson

Sculpture and seams are like boxers and broken noses: They go hand in hand.

— Charles Ray

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more…

— Joey Jordison

What I always look for in just about any band or artists I sign is their songs.

— Seymour Stein

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

— Juliet Stevenson

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

— Ester Dean

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

— M. F. Husain

“My conscience, Sensei, tells me I cannot remain forever an artist of the floating world.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'

— David Bailey

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

— Robert Schumann

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs…

— Stanley Spencer

Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

— John Olsen

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at…

— Michael Hersch

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

— Jon Gordon

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

— Reba McEntire

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

— Jackson Pollock

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

— Russell Lynes

“You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.”

— Amit Kalantri