Artist Quotes · Page 430

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

— Bebe Rexha

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

— Sol Hurok

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

— Scott Avett

“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work…

— Happy Positivity

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

— William Shakespeare

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

— Bruce Lee

I think around 2015 and 2016 I ended up in an identity crisis, artistically. I didn't know what direction I was going…

— MO

As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art,…

— Anselm Kiefer

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a…

— Paul McCartney

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively…

— Joseph Beuys

I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most…

— Joey Ramone

“It all boils down to instinct, good or bad. Artistic creation must be spontaneous. It comes from the heart; it has to…

— Maurice Chevalier

Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I…

— James Howard Kunstler

“ambitious provincial towns and tourist-oriented countries wanting to “do a Bilbao”—that is, to transform their reputations and raise their profile by commissioning…

— Will Gompertz

Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad…

— Paul Cezanne

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's…

— William Beckett

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

— Louise Bourgeois

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

— Charles Ives

“It was perfectly possible to be an artist, yet also to be robust and responsible.”

— Julian Barnes

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

— Ayn Rand

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

— John Updike

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.

— Mark Hoppus

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

— John Banville

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

— Hans Werner Henze

It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you.

— Laurie Simmons

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

— Robert Gober

Not that I sound anything like her, but I grew up singing like Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion was definitely my favourite…

— Lights

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

— Ralph Bakshi

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in…

— Sean Scully

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

— Pietro Aretino

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea…

— Oscar Wilde

I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.

— Aleksandra Mir

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

— Ridley Scott

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

— Ned Rorem

To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.

— Julia Holter

I just want to be fully challenged as an artist, so that anyone who looks like me, who relates to me, says,…

— Danielle Brooks

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I…

— Stevie Nicks