Artist Quotes · Page 464

I think being an artist is freedom, and that's the most important thing.

— Bugzy Malone

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

— William Singe

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

— Grayson Perry

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at…

— Daryl Hall

I feel like the score is a chance for an artist to exercise their voice and augment a film.

— Bear McCreary

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters”

— Seth Godin

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that…

— Sylvester Stallone

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

— D.T. Suzuki

The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that…

— St. Lucia

Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents…

— Joan Miro

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and…

— Shepard Fairey

I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten…

— Kanye West

To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human…

— Frederick Franck

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

— Edvard Munch

I fought doing dance music as a solo artist for a long time. I always thought there was a ceiling with it.

— Becky Hill

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct…

— Joel Achenbach

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

— Joshua Reynolds

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and…

— Lindsey Buckingham

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

— Bertolt Brecht

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require…

— Andrew Loog Oldham

“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous."— Queen Victoria”

— Queen Victoria

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

— Frederick Lenz

There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my…

— Jim Shaw

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to…

— Adam McKay

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!”

— Bryant McGill

I'm not the kind of artist who can just gear myself to a particular radio format without looking like a fashion victim.

— Michael McDonald

You have to be firm when you're protecting your art, your craft, your integrity as an artist.

— Myha'la

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has…

— Laura Dern

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

— William Shatner

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

— George C. Wolfe

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work…

— Edward G. Robinson

“Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.”

— Larry Brooks

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

— Rod Lurie

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

— Heart Evangelista