Artist Quotes · Page 417

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

— Catherine Camus

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave…

— Sally Mann

Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking…

— Monica Johnson

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

— Banksy

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

— Don Watson

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.

— Sloane Crosley

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few…

— Jeanette Winterson

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own…

— Patrick Carney

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of…

— Willa Cather

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and…

— Peter Schjeldahl

“I am shedding. I am not a new me. I am my old me in my new me. I remain, carved with…

— Malebo Sephodi

I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain,…

— Bill Skarsgard

“Gauguin was a stockbroker in Paris, married, had five kids. One day he came home from work and told his wife he…

— James Frey

“Art is more than a sum of cultural signs: It is a language both direct and associative, and has a grammar and…

— David Salle

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

— Gilbert Stuart

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

— Lucinda Childs

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I…

— Ben Sollee

I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.

— Verite

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as…

— Mika

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

— David Bowie

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

— Mayim Bialik

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

— Susan Sontag

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

— David Crabb

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

— Amy Harmon

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.

— PSY

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

— Veronica Roth

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

— Donald Barthelme

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

— James Thomson

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have…

— Balthus

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].

— Mike W. Barr

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

— Conway Twitty

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

— William Cowper

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

— Gustave Courbet

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

— Sholom Aleichem

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

— Bruce Dickinson