Artist Quotes · Page 411

“Life is art Layla. Not everyone can appreciate it, not everyone cherishes it, and not everyone understands its value.”

— Nevien Shaabneh

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

— Harvey Pekar

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

— Thomas Hood

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.

— Wade Guyton

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths…

— William Butler Yeats

Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.

— Grimes

Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

— Chance The Rapper

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

— Ernest Hello

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's…

— Jeff Melvoin

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to…

— Asger Jorn

I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is…

— Dave Chappelle

“the original commission for the ceiling was a plan designed by the pope and his closest advisers. Jesus was to have been…

— Benjamin Blech

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he…

— Walter J. Phillips

An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in…

— Nipsey Hussle

“Just think of me as a canvas and you as the paint, and try and imagine that we are creating a masterpiece…

— Angela Richardson

I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can…

— El-P

Look at my horsey I drew I love how it looks I did good on this horse :) don't yall think so :)

— Brianna Ramos

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

— Guy Davenport

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

— LeRoy Neiman

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

— Toni Onley

As an artist, I write and I do what I know and what creatively comes out of me, and I think that…

— Salim Akil

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

— Baltasar Gracian

I think what makes me great as a songwriter is there's still an artist behind it.

— The-Dream

To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity.

— Glenn Gould

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

— Arnold Friberg

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

— Lucian Freud

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

— Carlisle Floyd

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

— William Stafford

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

— Karl Popper

I had to learn how to bring the best outta Key! by learning what's going on with him. That's how I approach…

— Kenny Beats

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

— Jason McCoy

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

— Brice Marden

Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I…

— Becky G

Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.

— Mark Noble

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

— Gerhard Richter

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

— Camille Paglia

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

— L. E. J. Brouwer

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

— Pauline Kael

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole…

— Ansel Elgort

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

— Craig Johnson