Top 100 All Artists Quotes
#1. I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
Kanye West
#3. The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them.
Deborah Moggach
#4. The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people that know the truth about us. Soldiers don't, statesmen don't, priests don't, union leaders don't ... only the poets.
James Baldwin
#5. All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
Irving Stone
#6. All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?
Peter Schjeldahl
#7. Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.
Corita Kent
#8. All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#9. Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
Ned Rorem
#10. I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman ... come in the guise of a comic ... to heal perception by using ... 'jokes' ...
Bill Hicks
#11. It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.
T. Allen Lawson
#12. The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
Kelly Jones
#13. All artists are now free to express their own personality.
Maurice Denis
#14. All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.
Peter Kreeft
#15. All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
Francis Bacon
#16. Everybody who writes about Blake begins by saying that he was a visionary. It is a vague term. All artists, even the most realistic, start with some kind of vision - that is what leads them to select what they need from the infinite diversity of appearances.
Kenneth Clark
#17. All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
James Baldwin
#18. If there were a race among all artists to the human heart, my money would be on music to win. It knows a shortcut.
Marie-Helene Bertino
#19. I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.
Sean Lennon
#20. People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
Tori Amos
#21. All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.
Berry Gordy
#22. The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.
Madeleine L'Engle
#23. We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
Alan Bennett
#24. I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.
Jack White
#25. It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity.
Chloe Thurlow
#27. All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.
Jacob Lawrence
#28. [My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.
Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
#29. All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
John Kricfalusi
#30. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.
Kanye West
#31. Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
Edna Longley
#33. There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.
Sophie Blackall
#35. Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.
Michelangelo Pistoletto
#36. All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared
to learn to draw?
Banksy
#38. 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 One does not choose the content, one submits to it.
Pierre Alechinsky
#39. I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being this restorative force. I write about them because that's what I think about in my own life.
Lauren Oliver
#40. Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works.
Kelly Reilly
#41. All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.
Jim Harrison
#42. THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit. It's a genuine tragedy. Worse yet, it's an unnecessary tragedy. After all, artists who continue and artists who quit share an immense field of common emotional
David Bayles
#43. ROBERT ROTH: Going against the tide, no matter how gracefully, will beat you up after a while - all artists know this.
Greg Prato
#44. The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists." ... So, what breaks your heart?
Jonathan Carroll
#45. The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
Brad Paisley
#46. Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Erica Jong
#47. Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.
Walter J. Phillips
#48. That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure ... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.
Mike Svob
#49. Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.
James Fenton
#50. I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
Madeleine L'Engle
#51. All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
Andrew Jack
#52. All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.
Seth Godin
#54. To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
Arnold Bennett
#55. I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.
Margot Fonteyn
#56. It is YOU who is so busy disrespecting artistry. You disrespect your own remarkable talents and more importantly you disrespect the talent, hard work, and tenacity of all artists when you go so rudely and savagely after such an accomplished and humble artist like BECK.
Shirley Manson
#57. Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
Michael Franti
#58. I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry
of life in their own way, just like writers deal with
archetypes. There are only so many stories that you can
tell, but an infinite number of storytellers.
Henry Mosquera
#59. Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists
William Blake
#60. I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.
Michael Haneke
#61. I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
Sharon Olds
#62. We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life.
Steven Redhead
#63. What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all artists are fighting. I want to hold the mirror up to society and help them see themselves more clearly. I also love just making people laugh.
Jinkx Monsoon
#64. We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.
Stephen Fry
#65. Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.
Nikki Sixx
#66. All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
Lionel Richie
#67. I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!
Rachel Stevens
#68. All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.
Terrence Howard
#69. I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think in the end this kind of activity absorbs one in such a way that it becomes one's way of life.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#70. All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.
Mike Svob
#72. I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.
Mary Ruefle
#73. I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
Edwidge Danticat
#74. All artists are protected by copyright ... and we should be the first to respect copyright.
Billy Cannon
#75. Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
Sloane Crosley
#76. All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.
Eckhart Tolle
#77. I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.
Norman Mailer
#78. Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#79. We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make.
Michael Gungor
#80. All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.
Robert Zemeckis
#81. I do believe everyone on this earth is an artist - some people more than others. But I do believe we are all artists in a certain way. We all have unique abilities. There are people who are meant to make it their life, and that is a different kind of person who would choose to be on that path.
Melora Hardin
#84. But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.
Skitch Henderson
#85. Pornography won't be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want to smell and taste the true information. All artists want to make their fantasies reality. And everyone with a cock wants to use it to fall in love.
Peter Sotos
#86. Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.
Dennis Hopper
#87. All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
Iris Murdoch
#88. We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.
Eric Church
#89. Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love - from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare.
Mireille Mathieu
#90. I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
Dakota Johnson
#91. Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.
David Bayles
#92. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush
#93. I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.
Ted Naifeh
#94. All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
Lawrence Durrell
#95. I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.
Brice Marden
#97. I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.
Catherine Hardwicke
#98. I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
Willie Nelson
#100. All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.
Kim Addonizio
