Artist Quotes · Page 437

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all…

— Lykke Li

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

— James Thurber

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

— Nile Rodgers

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

— George Rickey

“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance…

— Gary Inbinder

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount…

— Kelly Price

Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don't want…

— Ed Kowalczyk

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

— Jerry Saltz

The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never…

— Quentin Bryce

It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist,…

— Marina Abramovic

“The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It…

— Kirsha Kaechele

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split…

— Maurice Sendak

Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor…

— Lois Mailou Jones

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

— Pamela Love

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

— Iris Murdoch

Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so…

— Tracey Emin

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

— Tom Wesselmann

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

— Jackson Pollock

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

— Emily Carr

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

— John F. Kennedy

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

— John Donne

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

— Dave Matthews

The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with…

— Corey Stoll

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

— Carly Chaikin

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

— Aubrey Beardsley

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that."…

— Paul Feig

It's all about the art. It's not about getting on TV or not getting on TV.

— Ari Shaffir

I just felt very isolated in France, a very bureaucratic place, no space for thinking in a different way, an artist's way.

— Dominique Crenn

Im gunna draw a picture a picture with a twist ill draw it with a raser blade ill draw it on my…

— Kyna

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

— Grandma Moses

“A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who…

— Catherynne M. Valente

We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.

— Billy Eichner

People have an aversion, rightly so, to people who haven't earned their stripes as a singer and artist doing brand partnerships.

— Sam Ryder

I think you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your status as an artist to be true to who…

— Nadine Labaki