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Artist Quotes by Jasper Johns
- To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
- As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities,…
- In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.…
- Merce is my favorite artist in any field,
- I'm working in my mind.
- There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was…
- What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good…
- The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where…
More Artist Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu