Artist Quotes · Page 443

I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people…

— Future

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension…

— Virginia Woolf

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

— Yayoi Kusama

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in…

— Henry Miller

“We create art for many reasons—wealth, fame, love, admiration—but I find the one thing that produces the best results is desire.”

— Francesca Zappia

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

— John Berger

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

— George Orwell

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a…

— Eugen Herrigel

Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that -…

— Kate Nash

I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about…

— Beatrice Miller

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that…

— Thomas Merton

Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Social media is so powerful now, and with all these blog sites and YouTube channels and videos, it makes it more and…

— Tyga

A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be…

— Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia…

— Roger Caillois

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician…

— Irene Cara

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

— Alan Moore

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

— Leopold Stokowski

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question…

— e. e. cummings

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

— Beth Macy

I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d'art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.

— Hilary Farr

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your…

— Rick Jarow

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

— Lewis Mumford

Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

— Bill Luff

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

— Isadora Duncan

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

— Kiki Smith

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

— Chuck Jones

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

— Jerry Saltz

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

— Jessica Alba

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

— Damien Hirst

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

— Timothy Keller

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

— Maxfield Parrish

I believe I'm an artist that just shines live - it's just something that happens.

— Peter Frampton

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of…

— Paul Valery

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson