Artist Quotes · Page 418

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

— Cardi B

“The aesthetic moment constitutes this deep rapport between subject and object”

— Christopher Bollas

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

— Tommy Chong

“How mournful can be the words of an artist, concealed among the beggars and the roses?”

— Joso Skarica

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

— Christina Aguilera

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

— Diego Rivera

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to…

— Beyonce Knowles

Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“understand what part they played. Symmetry. And because I understood that, I understood that a single painting or composition or poem might…

— Megan Chance

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge…

— Richard Eyre

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my…

— Gustav Klimt

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects…

— John Ruskin

“Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is…

— Seth Godin

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative…

— Edward Hopper

I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature…

— Helen Frankenthaler

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

As an artist, my only relationship to my audience is through my work. That relationship is sacred to me.

— Parvathy

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

— Daniel Bell

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

— Nicholas Meyer

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I…

— Jackson Pollock

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

— Ed Harris

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the…

— Rumi

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

— Kanye West

Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary.

— Tyler Farr

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

— George C. Wolfe

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

— David Bowie

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive…

— Frederick Sommer

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

— Agnes Martin

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

— Ron Silver

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

— Kevin Costner

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you…

— Dianna Agron

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

— Kanye West

It's so easy to look at artists, like myself or whoever, and think their lives are perfect. That's just not a reality…

— Carly Pearce

Deciding if I should draw on my sisters face with sharpie ^_^ even though she has school tomo xD

— Patience

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

— Bernie Ecclestone

I love Adele. Adele is my favorite artist. She's British. She's funny. She's just an amazing, incredible voice, and I love to…

— Millie Bobby Brown

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

— James Galanos

“Sometimes life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one”

— Stella Adler