Artists Quotes

2212 Artists quotes by 1502 unique authors

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists,… — David Foster Wallace
All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get. — John Kricfalusi
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained. — John Kricfalusi
I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds… — John Kricfalusi
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a… — Twyla Tharp
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists. — John Henry Newman
Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet… — Del LaGrace Volcano
Is it better to strive for success as a self-representing artist or try to get your feet wet in the gallery world? That is such… — Matt LeBlanc
When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience… — Pierre Alechinsky
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no… — Egon Schiele
A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn’t really… — Kool Moe Dee
Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do. — Dr. Dre
I don't think artists are made, I think they're born. — Don Van Vliet
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains,… — Andy Warhol
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. — Lawrence Lessig
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal, — Banksy
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. — Jennifer L. Knox
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things… — Richard Bausch
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive… — Ludwig von Mises
There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably… — Kathe Kollwitz
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. — Issey Miyake
I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother… — Jean Paul Gaultier
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though… — Giuseppe Verdi
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives… — Nikola Tesla
You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability. — Kendrick Lamar

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