Artist Quotes · Page 473

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all…

— Lykke Li

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

— George Rickey

“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance…

— Gary Inbinder

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

— Nile Rodgers

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount…

— Kelly Price

Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don't want…

— Ed Kowalczyk

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

— Jerry Saltz

“the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.”

— Kathryn Shay

I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my…

— Ruth Asawa

Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter…

— Chris Ware

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order…

— Michelangelo

“He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus…

— E.M. Forster

Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my…

— Jamie Wyeth

The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the…

— Stacy Schiff

Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that…

— Lewis Baltz

I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped…

— Robert Barry

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

— Viggo Mortensen

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep…

— Craig Ferguson

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

— Miles Davis

Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

— Camille Henrot

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

— Rudolf Steiner

I'm a fighter now. I'm officially a mixed martial artist. I'm not a wrestler no more.

— Henry Cejudo

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

— Luis Bunuel

“I worked with a sketch artist, but I was driving fast when I saw the suspect, so the drawing came out blurry.”

— Jarod Kintz

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

— Bruce Springsteen

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

— Kinky Friedman

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

— Big Sean

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

— Len Wein

I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think…

— Roisin Murphy

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

— Marshall McLuhan

In all forms of art, it's our duty to hold a mirror to society, without judgement of course.

— Arjun Mathur

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

— Barbara Hepworth

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

— Liza Campbell

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

— John Berger

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

— Jeff Buckley

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

— John Legend

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in…

— Yoko Ono

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— Loren Eiseley

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really…

— James Van Der Beek

Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

— Kate Braverman