Artist Quotes · Page 416

It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.

— Eric Maisel

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

— Bob Marley

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my…

— Adele

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

— Brandon Boyd

You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.

— Matt Bomer

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

— J. D. Salinger

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

— Bill Sienkiewicz

So I saw this on this drawing thing so I drew it(: Haha! It's somthing called''Chibi Cherrys'' or somthing? O.o haha,But yeah(:

— Jasmine

What was exciting to me in talking to Kogonada was I was just very convinced that he was a very real and…

— John Cho

He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,…

— John Milton

The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them….Ill fares the…

— Winston Churchill

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what…

— Hokusai

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Cyril: surely you would acknowledge that art expresses the temper of its age, the spirit of its time, the moral and social…

— Oscar Wilde

If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas;…

— Caterina Fake

Due to the world I've been part of in creating art for so many years, I feel really connected to pop culture…

— Davey Havok

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

— Robert Motherwell

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

— Friedrich Schiller

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

— Gutzon Borglum

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

— Keariene Muizz

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style.…

— Pierce Brosnan

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more…

— Henri Rousseau

In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

— Anonymous

Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, 'I'm a crunk artist. I make crunk music.'

— Lil Jon

Paint heavily leaking. I guess it wasn't finished. Riding with something freaky. They tell me she the business.

— Trae Tha Truth

There was nobody telling me, 'You should be an artist,' or, 'You should be an actor.'

— Frank Grillo

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the…

— Gerhard Richter

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

— Georges Braque

Sometimes when you're an artist, you need to be in your own head; you need to stay in it to be able…

— Santigold

“Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing.”

— Stephen King

“See, if you paint wrong because that’s the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you…

— Neal Shusterman

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

— Billy Boyd

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a…

— Hans Hofmann

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the…

— Thornton Wilder

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

— Mary Doria Russell

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it…

— Josh Smith

I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim…

— Tim Crouch