Artist Quotes · Page 440

For the song 'Rub,' I wanted to do a video with all women, in every aspect, from the electrician to the makeup…

— Peaches

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

— Marcel Duchamp

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

— Shawn Fanning

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

— Irving Stone

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

— Paul Klee

Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a…

— Jocko Henderson

To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

— Samuel Beckett

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

— Masashi Kishimoto

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it.…

— FKA twigs

Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I…

— Anthony Edwards

I watched and learned about music as a member of Big Bang. Of course it's important to show my charms as an…

— Seungri

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could…

— Cindy Sherman

The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills…

— Robert Genn

Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me…

— Philip Guston

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator,…

— Louise Wilder

I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young…

— Liane Balaban

I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot…

— Maluma

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.

— Susanne Bier

For me, what's important is to be inspired and keep moving to grow as an artist and as a person.

— Ishaan Khatter

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

— Don Paterson

As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.

— PSY

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

— Rhiannon Giddens

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

— Patti Smith

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It…

— Marc Chagall

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

— Eric Maisel

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

— Harvey Fierstein

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

— Scott Adams

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy…

— Francis Bacon

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

— Jamie Wyeth

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was…

— Arne Glimcher

The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?

— Daniel Kaluuya

“Intelligent and insightful at the same time, this is one of the earliest human expressions of art.”

— Rujuta Diwekar

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

— Susan Sontag

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

— James Elkins

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

— Andre Malraux

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

— Mark Edward

That's why art is so fantastic: It can keep being adapted to move with society's vision as well as the original.

— Rachel Zegler

I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

— Colin Mochrie

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

— Robert Pinsky

“Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear…

— Leonora Carrington