Artist Quotes · Page 438

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

— Hilda Doolittle

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so…

— Daniel Johnston

I hate seeing people getting a raw deal and artists not being in control of what they are doing. It happens all…

— Ronan Keating

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

My name is Rene Angelil, throat cancer survivor, artist manager, and I am also known as Celine Dion's husband.

— Rene Angelil

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?

— Larry Gagosian

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

— Michiko Kakutani

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled…

— Brian Eno

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing…

— Gary Wright

The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous…

— David Means

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living.…

— Anonymous

My whole family is very art-based. My sister runs a gallery, my other sister works for PACE in New York, my other…

— Rose McGowan

Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away.…

— Sara Zarr

“Living the artist’s life, it turns out, is full of surprises. Yes, it is about being sensitive to beauty, about creating exquisite…

— Mallory M. O'Connor

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

— J. G. Holland

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“When I'm on a backhoe, I'm shaping clay. I am a sculptor. I am a farm artist.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface”

— Lisa Renee Jones

“You, the artistic renderer interpreter, must decide what U think about these coniptions.”

— Irucka Ajani Embry

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

— Michelle Stuart

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

— Francis Ford Coppola

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

— Jean Dubuffet

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.

— El Anatsui

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

— Eric Fischl

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists.

— Big Freedia

“My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.”

— Kinan Azmeh

I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.

— Antony Sher

There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

— Dylan Thomas

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no…

— Gerald Brommer

Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the…

— Matthew Slotover

There's nothing better than to work with somebody who appreciates you as an artist.

— Trevor Jackson

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

— Donald Trump

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

— Seth Godin

You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.

— Diego Luna

'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.

— Steve Wynn

I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And…

— Yuna