Artist Quotes · Page 490

“Degenerates are not always criminals, anarchists, and pronounced lunatics; They are often authors and artists.”

— Max Nordau

I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to…

— Natalie Prass

This is what I made for u but I put it on my wall lol B.L.A do u like it babe :)…

— Brianna Ramos

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

— David Lynch

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

— Jerry Saltz

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for…

— Edith Sitwell

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

— Marcel Dzama

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

— Jonathan Alter

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized,…

— Yasumasa Morimura

So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the…

— M. Night Shyamalan

An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from…

— Betty Edwards

“But what cannot be taught, fortunately or unfortunately, is the creative, expressive side of art. Most good teachers of drawing, painting, ect.,…

— Edward Chase

For me, the worst set is always when something happens to your equipment. Or back in the days your records wouldn't arrive…

— Loco Dice

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Artists, on the other hand, talk to determine what works, what does not, and why. Their focus is more on the micro;…

— David Salle

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art…

— Scott McClanahan

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant…

— George Saunders

I did a film called 'The Escape Artist' for Francis Coppola. I had the title role.

— Harry Anderson

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“What if you start to think of your art in terms of sales, too? Can you still be true to yourself?”

— Kevin Emerson

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art

— Sol LeWitt

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

— Max Nordau

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.

— Rita Ackermann

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

— Man Ray

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

— Clive Bell

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all…

— Jack White

I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

— Joe Budden

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

— Seth MacFarlane

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on…

— Del Close

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or…

— Dua Lipa

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

— Bill Griffith

Especially for my first album, I struggled with even the thought of being a solo artist.

— LeToya Luckett

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

— Richard Phillips

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

— Rene Angelil

“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s”

— Jean Hegland

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it…

— Labrinth