Art Quote by Lou Reed Download Open image “I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.” — Lou Reed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Creativity Ego Pretentious Sake Thinking
Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why you're doing… — Goldie Copy Share Image
I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art. — Mitski Copy Share Image
“Not every artist can make a masterpiece, yet it’s the experiments that quietly stumble forward that lead to them. There’s an altogether more generous… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it. — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules. — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality. — Yareli Arizmendi Copy Share Image
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“There's a bit of magic in everything And then some loss to even things out.” — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
