Artist Quotes · Page 457

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

— Robert Genn

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

— Terry Pratchett

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

— Lionel Hampton

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that…

— Jean Dubuffet

I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.

— Astro

I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.

— Yusaku Maezawa

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

— Norah Jones

Things you learn through the arts are used every day in life. It's a great way to express yourself and get out…

— Peyton List

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort…

— Julian Schnabel

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, “What do you see in this work?” The idea that the expert should be…

— Dale B. Martin

Boarding for me, like in the days of 'Dexter,' was really hard, because I couldn't draw as well, and I had people…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a…

— Ellsworth Kelly

And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee,…

— Christopher Moore

My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry…

— Bob Carlisle

“More than any expert Irene had met, Mr. Simms mastered the intricacies of dealing in art. He understood an object's worth, not…

— Kim Fay

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

— Alice Neel

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

— Robert Rauschenberg

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of…

— Melina Marchetta

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

— Madeleine L'Engle

You see how Jay-Z has evolved from 'Reasonable Doubt' to now being Shawn Carter. You have to grow to be a superstar…

— Trina

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

— Robert Hayden

“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.”

— Christina Baker Kline

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated…

— Joseph Conrad

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

— Robert Henri

As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able…

— Semir Zeki

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

— Alfred Stieglitz

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

— Andrew Sarris

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

— Austin Osman Spare

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

— Henri Matisse

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

— Kenneth Clark

We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.

— R. O. Blechman

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into…

— John Maus

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more…

— Jacques-Louis David

While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

— Eric Maisel

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

— Anne Truitt

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

— T. S. Eliot

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza…

— Gene Simmons

“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster