Artist Quotes · Page 475

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

— Jim Morrison

I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don't want to be known as just a 'remix artist' for the rest of my…

— Kygo

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist.

— Hilary Hahn

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I…

— Maya Lin

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

— Cornel West

Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.

— Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

Art is an infusion of inner feelings and thoughts executed in an original style that defines the artist.

— Jean Norvy

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the…

— Marvin Gaye

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing…

— Chris Brown

Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube,…

— Claude Monet

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don't think,…

— Donna Tartt

We tend to have so many more close shots, which compels an artist to actually put in more effort than it is…

— Mohanlal

A lot of people have a misconception about artists, that they're invincible, you know, they're on a different plateau. But I'm just…

— Taboo

What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the…

— John Lasseter

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In…

— Edward Weston

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

— Edvard Munch

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic…

— Clive Bell

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

— Hesiod

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

— Ani DiFranco

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

— Albert Camus

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

— George Santayana

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

— Barry Hannah

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

— Minor White

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

— Adrienne Rich

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

— Edward Norton

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

— Lawrence Durrell

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera…

— Nigel Dennis

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life…

— Charlotte Rampling

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

— Herbert Spencer

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.

— Howard Pyle

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

— Anne Truitt

It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.

— G-Dragon

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

— Dennis Conner

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual…

— Igor Babailov

“Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected.”

— Nick Hornby

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

— Claude Monet

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

— Sarah Snook