Artist Quotes · Page 450

I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.

— Grimes

Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

— Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

— Martha Graham

People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they…

— Warryn Campbell

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it…

— Audre Lorde

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat…

— Pablo Picasso

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

— Rachel Kushner

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the…

— Christian Slater

The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss.…

— Robert Picardo

Street art is designed to be seen out of the corner of your eye, on the hoof. Art that's made for galleries…

— Matthew Slotover

“When I'm drawing - and here drawing is very different from writing or reasoning - I have the impression at certain moments…

— John Berger

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up…

— M. C. Escher

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've…

— Marcel Duchamp

I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them…

— Janice Erlbaum

Often, when art from the canon is brought in to fine art classes, it is used as a prop to inspire art-making…

— Munira Mirza

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

— DJ Premier

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

— Oscar Wilde

For a while I toyed around with the idea of doing a Banksy; not letting anyone know what I looked like.

— Naughty Boy

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

— Randy Travis

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

— Meredith Brooks

I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

— Todd Rundgren

I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as…

— Natalie Maines

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could…

— Richard Billingham

“The challenge is this: training creative, independent, and innovative artists is new to us.”

— Seth Godin

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

— Anonymous

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

— T. S. Eliot

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

— Tracy Chevalier

All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird's eye view, it's the Indigenous way of storytelling.

— Aaron Pedersen

“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”

— Anonymous

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a…

— Gore Vidal

“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and…

— James Thurber

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

— Christina Aguilera

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

— Eric Maisel

“But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.”

— The New Yorker

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

— Audrey Flack

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

— Gertrude Stein

No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else.

— Anonymous

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and…

— Clement of Alexandria