Artist Quotes · Page 485

“Dalí from the Back Painting a Person at the Window from the Back Eternalized by Six Virtual Panes Provisionally. In”

— Joshua V. Scher

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

— Julia Cameron

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

— Oscar Wilde

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

— Mike Svob

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

— Alanis Morissette

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

— Busta Rhymes

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

— Philippe Claudel

“One cannot even light a casual cigarette unless the artistic permission of the universe is freely given!”

— J.D. Salinger

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor,…

— Ricky Martin

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole…

— Cynthia Ozick

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and…

— Morgan Parker

My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin…

— Bella Thorne

The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas…

— David Adjaye

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling…

— John Berger

I think the problem for the future generations is a lot of people ain't takin' the time to look for galvanizing artists…

— Chuck D

“Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.”

— Oscar Wilde

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

— Marjane Satrapi

“Sometimes life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one”

— Stella Adler

“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.”

— Jean-Michel Rene Souche

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

— James Galanos

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in…

— Bebe Neuwirth

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

— Shinichi Suzuki

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

— Lord Byron

We the best Khaled, no need to stress Khaled. Know there's a lot of artist, but I got the best palette.

— Wale

I learned to play instruments and I've been in bands since I was 13, but I wanted to be an artist and…

— The-Dream

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

— Rufus Wainwright

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

— Don Blanding

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

— Isaac Asimov

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

— Kanye West

It's so easy to look at artists, like myself or whoever, and think their lives are perfect. That's just not a reality…

— Carly Pearce

I love Adele. Adele is my favorite artist. She's British. She's funny. She's just an amazing, incredible voice, and I love to…

— Millie Bobby Brown

Deciding if I should draw on my sisters face with sharpie ^_^ even though she has school tomo xD

— Patience

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

— Bernie Ecclestone

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

— John Dyer

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic…

— Guido Molinari

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm…

— Frida Giannini

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to…

— Beth Orton

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

— Bruce Lee

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.

— E. M. Forster