Artist Quotes · Page 446

When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson.

— Rutina Wesley

“The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.”

— William Faulkner

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

— Aristotle

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

— John Kani

I quite like Jackson Pollock, and have a real gut reaction to it, so it does whatever it does to me.

— Denis Lawson

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with…

— Bernard Arnault

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without…

— Frida Kahlo

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of...

— Michelangelo

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects…

— Diego Rivera

My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing!…

— Louise Bourgeois

We was different, and that's what made g-funk turn into what it turned into and create a new genre, and open up…

— Warren G

As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of…

— Del LaGrace Volcano

“We all need a project. Whether we're 12 or 84, we need something to work on. My grandfather had his paintings. They…

— Skylar Cross

I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally…

— D.A. Wallach

I didn't want to go to school, because I wanted to be an artist, and they were never going to teach me…

— Kali Uchis

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it…

— Barbara Kruger

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

— Johan Huizinga

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art.…

— Nicole McKay

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

— Benjamin Spock

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

— Georges St-Pierre

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

— Edith Schaeffer

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

— Franz Kafka

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

— Paul Dano

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

— Ernst Levy

I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

— Justin Beckett

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

— Ralph H. Baer

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and…

— LL Cool J

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

— Hokusai

I think it's important to evolve and make a different record every time as an artist.

— Orianthi

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or…

— James Howard Kunstler

“Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author.”

— Sonia Rumzi

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

— Robert Henri

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

— Anna Deavere Smith

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

— Albert Camus

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.

— Michelle Grabner

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

— Annie Lennox

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

— Ai Weiwei

“The owner doesn’t ask questions about where the painting has been. He’s just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.”

— Daniel Silva