Artist Quotes · Page 427

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

— Sammy Hagar

This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.

— Lisa Lopes

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art…

— John Fowles

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it…

— Dorothea Tanning

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me…

— Chris Van Allsburg

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

— P. G. Wodehouse

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

— Emmanuelle Beart

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

— Bob Ross

Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly…

— Miranda July

I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

"The Cursed Wheel" is the heart of the whole year on All-Star. All-Star is a series that's largely compartmentalized so that every…

— Scott Snyder

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist…

— Jerry Pinkney

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from…

— J. Robbins

“When carving stone, the sculptor removes everything that is not the statue. […] The art of revealing beauty lies in removing what…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i.e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

— Francoise Cachin

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

— Julian Schnabel

Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

— Kate Braverman

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really…

— James Van Der Beek

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

— Edith Sitwell

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Every artist, whether he is an artist of music, word or paint, has a signature that sets him apart.”

— Jennifer Laurens

“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”

— William Everson

Mainly as an artist, I like to wear colors. I like to see colors, and it really helps my mood.

— Heart Evangelista

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

— Robert McKee

“to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

— Marina Abramovic

“Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.”

— Angus Wilson

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

— Jeff Buckley

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

— John Legend

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— Loren Eiseley

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in…

— Yoko Ono

I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think…

— Roisin Murphy

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

— Marshall McLuhan

In all forms of art, it's our duty to hold a mirror to society, without judgement of course.

— Arjun Mathur

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

— Barbara Hepworth

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

— John Berger

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

— Liza Campbell