Artist Quotes · Page 481

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

— Chath Piersath

Whoa.. all these broken hearts on that poll. Man if poll dancing's a art you know how many fu-kin artist I know.

— Drake

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

— Margaret Atwood

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

— John F. Carlson

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything,…

— Marcel Duchamp

When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

— N. C. Wyeth

The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able…

— Michael Arden

Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in…

— Liz Garbus

Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love…

— Dan Fante

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all…

— Alonzo King

As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care…

— Zachary Levi

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n'…

— Bonnie Raitt

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but…

— Andre Malraux

“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really…

— Eero Saarinen

“start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

— Gustave Flaubert

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how…

— Josh Groban

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on…

— David Bowie

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness…

— Shawn Crahan

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

— Rebecca West

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

— Pras Michel

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

— Junot Diaz

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

— Niall Horan

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You…

— M. Night Shyamalan

I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had…

— Francisco Costa

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

— Pablo Picasso

“Art supersedes knowledge written in books. Art is the muse. Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

— Anonymous

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

— C. S. Lewis

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

— Richard McGuire

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the…

— Eric Maisel

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

— Maynard James Keenan

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches…

— Anonymous

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

— Hilary Rosen

“These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell…

— John McLaughlin

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly…

— Wassily Kandinsky

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who…

— Lisa Yuskavage