Artist Quotes · Page 461

“Like stories, art isn’t something that we see exactly as it is. Stories and art are mirrors, reflections of who we are…

— Christa Avampato

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

I think art is the imperfectly perfect or perfectly imperfect way of self-expression.

— Justin Tucker

“Vincent did not know how to express his feelings in words. He knew how to paint them. However, one cannot paint the…

— Irving Stone

“A degree in art doesn’t automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist.”

— Ted Orland

“You have to feel so much and too much- for you to be able to make good art. Sometimes, it's the only…

— Rej Jaen

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

— Bruce Springsteen

I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into…

— Craig David

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it…

— Adam Gopnik

No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty…

— Stephen King

I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge…

— Bruce Pavitt

Me and Skepta, we're kind of from the same world but have totally different-sounding albums. That's why I get funny sometimes when…

— Kano

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that…

— Elisabeth Shue

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single…

— Winston Churchill

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics…

— Edi Rama

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough.

— Jackie Chan

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

— Alex Katz

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

— Paul Simonon

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

— Robert Smithson

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

— Jim Dine

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

— Jessica Stockholder

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

Jeff Hardy's site is literally his paintings and music; it has nothing to do with wrestling and is an artistic venture.

— Reby Sky

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

— Marina Abramovic

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

— John Chamberlain

“Rock art sites were symbolic vaginas, and entry into the wall of a rock art site was thus akin to intercourse.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express…

— Andrea Bocelli

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

— Susan Sontag

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

— Glenn Ligon

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

— Mark Mills

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

— John Ruskin

I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and…

— Akiane Kramarik

Growing up, watching pop music icons, I never saw a solo artist whose main instrument was drums.

— G Flip

I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

— Mark Foster

Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so…

— Shayna Baszler

Every time I traveled out of the country or did different things or did a new record with an artist I loved,…

— Trina

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

“Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh,…

— Kate Taylor