Artist Quotes · Page 455

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

— Thomas Jefferson

Plugins can be created to unleash your creativity and break down technical barriers between the artist and his ideas.

— Joey Sturgis

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

— Yoko Ono

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we…

— Ali Smith

Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.

— Shirin Neshat

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

— William Baziotes

“The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.”

— James A. Owen

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

— Allan Kaprow

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the…

— Mary Renault

I'm a songwriter-singer. I'm very vocal oriented, of course, but songwriting - no matter whether it's for myself or another artist -…

— LP

There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on…

— Gertrude Kasebier

My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the…

— Norval Morrisseau

“What does it mean?” I ask, trying to make him happy. “Does it have to mean something?” “I don’t know. I thought…

— Matthew Quick

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I…

— Andy Goldsworthy

What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was…

— Bruce Nauman

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless…

— Kenneth Clark

I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am,…

— Junot Diaz

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

— David Mamet

I'm really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.

— Khalid

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

— Charles Bukowski

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

— Mary Butts

“Paper flowers make just about any heart smile…and that- is the best gift of all!”

— Chantal Larocque

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just…

— William Hazlitt

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

— Danny Brown

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

— Bruce Nauman

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

— Sherwood Anderson

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

— William Boyd

Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

— Tinie Tempah

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

— Johnny Weir

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children…

— Philip Larkin

Sometimes I say stuff to relate to people. It just really depends, because you don't have to be one type of artist…

— Tyga

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

— Paula Scher

My paintbrush is my razor, my body is my canvas. so many pictures cover my body. with each picture I paint, the…

— Lauren

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.

— Michael Dirda

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

— Eli Broad

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm…

— Grace Slick

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

— Tim Burton

It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."

— Questlove

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon