Artist Quotes · Page 407

As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to…

— Khalid

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

— Robertson Davies

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and…

— Sam Francis

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

— Irwin Shaw

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

— John Maeda

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

— Chris Martin

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

— Francis Ford Coppola

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world…

— Katie Kitamura

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art…

— Georges Braque

I really tried to work out hard to emulate the look and feel of the character, and did my best to represent…

— Daniel Cudmore

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And…

— Michael Crichton

I was born in Indiana and raised in Oregon and there's a strong sense of individualism, particularly in Oregon. And my mom…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and…

— Chrissy Teigen

I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then,…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from…

— Kanye West

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

— Asger Jorn

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

— Ralph Richardson

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have…

— Charley Pride

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

— Helena Rubinstein

The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social…

— Thomas Jefferson

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

— M.I.A

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

— Aristotle

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

— Fernando Perez

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

— Nick Hornby

“A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...”

— Anonymous

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

— Eudora Welty

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

— Pierre Schaeffer

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

— Paul Klee

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

— James Surowiecki

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

— Meher Baba

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.

— Zack Snyder

That's what you want to do as an actor and as an artist: move an audience.

— Michael McElhatton

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

— Matthew Collings

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

— Anne Clark

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

— Jeff Dunham