Artist Quotes · Page 467

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or…

— John Baldessari

As an artist, you hope you're speaking to the times, and the times are definitely speaking to you. There's no way to…

— Misha Green

I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got…

— Karunas

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

— Katherine Dunn

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

— Don Meyer

“You'll understand the meaning in time. It's like a chemical -- you put it out there and the reaction that it creates…

— Guy Picciotto

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

— Pierre Bonnard

Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life…

— Robert Christgau

I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a…

— Anonymous

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated…

— Ben E. King

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at…

— Warren MacKenzie

“It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for…

— Arnold Arre

As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and…

— Woody Allen

“I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the…

— Helen Keller

I want to release music like a hip-hop artist. I want to write songs like a country music songwriter. And I want…

— Jelly Roll

“How does an artist look at the world? First, you figure out what's worth stealing, then you move on to the next…

— Austin Kleon

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

— Rainn Wilson

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

— Walter Russell

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit…

— Christian Keiber

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the…

— Curtis Jackson

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

— Darren Criss

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.”

— Jeff Ryan

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

— Patrick Ness

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an…

— George Bernard Shaw

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

— Federico Fellini

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.”

— Chrystal Evans Hurst

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists…

— Henri Matisse

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

— Louis Aragon

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

— Gerard Way

Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting…

— Cliff Chiang

Love a painting once craved that gets farther and farther away by the day...

— Mariana Fulger

Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

— Natalia Kills

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

— Steven Pressfield

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

— Sonakshi Sinha

Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.

— Alex Grey

I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but…

— Henri Matisse