Artist Quotes · Page 397

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, is a U.K. electronica artist whose diverse tastes have helped fuel a lengthy discography.

— Anthony Fantano

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

— John David Washington

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for…

— Tyga

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

— David Gilmour

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to…

— Rolf Harris

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it…

— Grayson Perry

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint…

— Francois Cavanna

They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists.…

— Thomas Merton

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the…

— Jenny Saville

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from…

— Lars Ulrich

“The development of an image of the glowing human being can be traced in European art. One index of it is the…

— Richard Dyer

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And it was as if I’d known that only here would those paints come into their own, and help me. That they…

— Jessie Burton

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel…

— T. Allen Lawson

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

— Steven Soderbergh

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

— Alexander Eliot

I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made…

— Adrian Dunbar

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

— Redman

I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value…

— Tobias Forge

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent”

— Oscar Wilde

“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

— Dominic Smith

“How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.”

— Jarod Kintz

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

— Robyn

If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true.

— Dahvie Vanity

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an…

— W. Earl Brown

Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial…

— Ma Yansong

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective…

— Ziggy Marley

“All great art is almost never received well initially; don't quit before the world opens its eyes.”

— Gregor Collins

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

— Wil Wheaton

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

— Takeshi Kitano

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

— Gunter Grass

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

— Criss Jami

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

— Boots Riley

I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist.

— Fabolous

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

— George Michael

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

— Aristotle