Artist Quotes · Page 476

It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.

— Armin van Buuren

“Murder = Art ... Everyone is artist... we all understand different the word "Artist”

— Deyth Banger

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad…

— Jane Lynch

When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.

— Jonathan Majors

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

— Thomas Kinkade

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

— Victor Hugo

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

— Lee Krasner

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really…

— Richard MacDonald

Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends…

— Wyndham Lewis

“There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care…

— Helen Nearing

The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound…

— Stephen Beal

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live…

— Oscar Wilde

“As an artist, I love a good scene. I could stamp my feet, take your bouquet, and throw it in your face,…

— Anna Adams

No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter…

— Twyla Tharp

When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period…

— Nikki Grimes

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.

— Mark Hoppus

“It was perfectly possible to be an artist, yet also to be robust and responsible.”

— Julian Barnes

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

— Ayn Rand

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

— John Updike

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

— John Banville

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

— Hans Werner Henze

It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you.

— Laurie Simmons

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

— Ralph Bakshi

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

— Robert Gober

Not that I sound anything like her, but I grew up singing like Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion was definitely my favourite…

— Lights

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in…

— Sean Scully

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

— Pietro Aretino

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea…

— Oscar Wilde

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

— Bebe Rexha

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

— William Shakespeare

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

— Sol Hurok

“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work…

— Happy Positivity

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

— Scott Avett

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad…

— Paul Cezanne

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

— Bruce Lee

Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

— Charles Ives

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's…

— William Beckett