Artist Quotes · Page 399

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

— David Lynch

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

— Allen Toussaint

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

— Marilyn Manson

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

— Gloria Steinem

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

People often think of artists and scientists as being diametrically opposed, but we both believe something is possible. We have a hypothesis…

— Mira Calix

I did A-levels in Art, Graphic Design, Maths and General Studies, and always thought I would be an artist or graphic designer,…

— Dan Hardy

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace…

— Oscar Wilde

It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to…

— Calvin Seerveld

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in…

— Boots Riley

I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today.…

— Jay Park

What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Art is the weapon Your imagination is the ammunition Stay dirty, and stay dangerous Create and destroy as you see fit”

— Gerard Way

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

— Natasha Rothwell

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular -…

— Jeffrey Deitch

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

— Tulisa

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do…

— Paul Emsley

As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

— Andy Grammer

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

— William Cowper

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

— Prince Royce

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

— Edward Hopper

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

— Issey Miyake

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...

— Bill Hicks

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to…

— Michael Giacchino

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw…

— Nick Carter

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

— Guy Kawasaki

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

“Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.”

— Armistead Maupin

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes…

— Ryan McGinness

“Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays”

— Dean Cavanagh

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

— Herbert Bayer