Artists Quotes

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I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the… — Claude Monet
All artists need a room of their own — Virginia Woolf
Art feeds off art...and artists feed off artists. — Robert Mangold
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily. — Margaret Atwood
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say… — Steve Guttenberg
I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. — Richard Linklater
I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially… — Christy Turlington
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. — Tommy Chong
I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the… — Tatiana Maslany
Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art… — Richard Huelsenbeck
Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is largely due to… — Fred Eaglesmith
Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music “for” their fans make… — Talib Kweli
Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. I don't find it encouraging...I just stand there and sing. I'm not worried that I'm a 'plus… — Adele
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their… — Frederick Franck
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly. — Claude Monet
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning… — Andrew Wyeth
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist. — Lionel Hampton
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a… — Tom Glazer
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a… — Oscar Wilde
I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time… — Jody Watley
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking… — Aaron Scharf
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you… — Aaron Scharf
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some… — Aaron Scharf
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors,… — Ralph Gibson

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