Artist Quotes · Page 403

“We are but masterpieces waiting to happen, searching for our inspiration.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.

— Noelle Stevenson

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

— Scott Kahn

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

— Karen Kain

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

— Moby

“The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What we do with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.”

— Helen Maryles Shankman

I could have $15 million in the bank right now, and that doesn't mean I'd stop trying to be a better artist.…

— Nav

An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting…

— Keith Johnstone

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at…

— Ai Weiwei

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art.…

— Gerald Stern

“Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that's why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has…

— Iris Murdoch

I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist…

— Kate Moss

The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud.…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why…

— Steven Pressfield

For me, I think of 'Dope' as an album. There may be a love song and there may be a party song,…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

— N. T. Wright

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also…

— Jerry Saltz

“Go out and support the arts in your towns and neighborhoods. You strengthen humanity each time...in the process.”

— Timothy Pina

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for…

— Seth Godin

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

— Mark Rothko

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

— Jeff Koons

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

— Natalia Kills

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and…

— Robert Henri

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

— Maria Shriver

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

— Anonymous

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

— Duff McKagan

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

— Ezra Pound

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

— Fred Tomaselli

“Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist.”

— Sarah Young

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

— Bonnie Raitt

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

— Julia Cameron

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your…

— Eric Drooker

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back,…

— Mandy Patinkin

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

— Franz Grillparzer

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a…

— Baz Luhrmann