Artist Quotes · Page 441

I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really…

— Jackson Guthy

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

— Andre Lhote

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about

— Julianne Moore

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the…

— Sally Mann

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

— Ann Wilson

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

— Brian Michael Bendis

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

— Rumi

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in…

— Gutzon Borglum

I'm not against art fairs, in fact this last one I even made money, but the concept is really disgusting. If you're…

— Lawrence Weiner

I'm an artist, and expressing myself in a sexual way, no matter how that changes throughout the years, is something that has…

— Christina Aguilera

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who…

— Kehinde Wiley

The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the…

— Neil MacGregor

I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I…

— Finn Juhl

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect…

— Austin Kleon

As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean,…

— Anonymous

There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

— Victoria Legrand

I've always been a draw-er, all throughout elementary school I was the "kid who draws".

— Liz Prince

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business.…

— Demian Bichir

But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to…

— Ally Carter

As an artist, as a person, I don't want to be here for just a little while.

— Cole Swindell

When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are…

— Timothy Morton

“I have always wanted my art to service my people… We have to create an art for liberation and for life”

— Elizabeth Catlett

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

— Kenneth Noland

What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.

— Mary Gauthier

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives…

— Rajneesh

“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.”

— Nader Ibrahim

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

— Tyson Chandler

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

— Leonard Bernstein

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

— Mary Cassatt

For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you…

— Bo Burnham

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

— David Rockefeller

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman

Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.

— Anthony Hamilton

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

— Patrick Ness

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.”

— Jeff Ryan

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

— Federico Fellini

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.”

— Chrystal Evans Hurst