Artist Quotes · Page 471

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

— Barry Diller

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

— Josh Trank

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

— Douglas Sirk

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of…

— Russell Chatham

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

— Agnes de Mille

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from…

— Julian Schnabel

I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

— Marjane Satrapi

I like all the old-fashioned icons. My friends are artists, so they make me up to look like certain people. I am…

— Pamela Anderson

I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself…

— Lucius Beebe

“Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of finished…

— David Bayles

It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from…

— Julie Taymor

“At the head of the table, where the roots of the fallen tree create a high, twisted chair, is a man. His…

— Zoraida Córdova

“Our bloodlust to destroy as much of Nature as possible will be exposed for what it is: the jealous rage of a…

— Petronius Jablonski

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are…

— Pablo Picasso

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same…

— Sudha Murty

If it makes you less sad, I'll take your pictures all down. Every picture you paint, I will paint myself out.

— Brand New

I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.”

— Oscar Wilde

It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

— Neil Gaiman

I can't deny people their art form. But you have to be challenged, and you have to meet that challenge.

— John Hughes

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

— El Greco

Becoming an artist and finding my way, I did kind of veer off into different genres and none of them ever fit.

— Sabrina Claudio

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

— Jacob Lawrence

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

— Leo Kottke

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

— Nadine Gordimer

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

— Elizabeth Ashley

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their…

— Hannah Gadsby

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,

— Muriel Spark

My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his…

— Shanna Moakler

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist…

— Sean Kingston

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

“love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy.”

— Hannah Mary Rothschild

That's always the time to quit - when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person.

— Fantastic Negrito

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

— Marya Mannes

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable,…

— Rodney Crowell

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

— Salvador Dali

If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.

— Max Martin

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

— Pablo Picasso

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

— P. J. Harvey