Artist Quotes · Page 463

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

I want to go on tour with the most exciting artists, and I want to make sure that I have songs with…

— Drake

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

— St. Lucia

“People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.”

— Leila Sales

In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your…

— Neil Gaiman

My favorite art, or whatever you want to call it, is art that makes you feel personally addressed.

— Matty Healy

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

— Sebastiao Salgado

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that…

— Harvey Weinstein

After Cannes every year, I end up going to some foreign country I've never been to before and introducing myself to a…

— Michelle Rodriguez

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what…

— Carly Simon

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who…

— Lucian Freud

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and…

— Philip Guston

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost…

— Henry Moore

'Celebrity' is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary.…

— Justin Timberlake

“Art is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and…

— Andrei

“You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.”

— Amit Kalantri

If anyone ever asks who I be, tell 'em a painter with a felt pen who drew Ali.

— Jay Electronica

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

— Ezra Pound

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

— Andre Breton

I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

— Too Short

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

— Albert C. Barnes

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

— Donatella Versace

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

— Alan Dean Foster

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

— Santigold

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

— Anonymous

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Bok strongly believed that good art should find a place in public buildings where large numbers of persons might find easy access…

— Edward Bok

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

— Charles Saatchi

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

— Brian K. Vaughan

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

— Gertrude Stein

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

— Martin Scorsese

“It’s self-expression, like an art to me. In the club, I direct the scenes and control the crowds. I draw them into…

— Ruby Rowe

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

— Iris Murdoch

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some…

— Steven Soderbergh

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

— Anonymous

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

— Theodor Reik

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill…

— Naomi Alderman