Top 100 Quotes About Artist
#1. The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics
Jonathan Alter
#2. I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.
Dave McKean
#3. If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
Charles M. Schulz
#4. You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.
Tom Stoppard
#6. He was ... at peace with the world, for it is not in the praise of others that the true artist revels, but in the knowledge that he has satisfied himself.
Tom Holt
#7. I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
Serj Tankian
#8. I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
James Iha
#9. I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.
Lisa Cholodenko
#10. Supporting a creative artist can mean buying their books, music, art, movie, and photographs or just shouting out their name.
Chris Mentillo
#11. Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth ... will also become the raw material for the art you make.
Teresita Fernandez
#12. The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator ... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
Octavio Paz
#13. Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
Annie Lennox
#14. The unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
Erica Jong
#15. The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always
known it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#16. The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.
Mike Leigh
#18. My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
Dylan Lauren
#19. The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Wallace Stevens
#20. I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable
Henry Miller
#21. The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I'm down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.
Carl Sagan
#22. The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.
Chloe Thurlow
#23. When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
Josh Peck
#24. My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.
Kelsea Ballerini
#25. What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder ...
Medardo Rosso
#26. The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.
Taylor Swift
#27. There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.
Al Jourgensen
#28. Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.
Dasha Zhukova
#29. Venus, taking pity on the artist Pygmalion when he fell hopelessly in love with his statue, granted his fondest wish and turned the statue into a beautiful woman, Galatea.
Michio Kaku
#30. The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.
Eugene Delacroix
#31. There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
Moliere
#33. I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.
Skylar Laine
#34. I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.
Todd Haynes
#35. Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.
Questlove
#36. I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
Peabo Bryson
#37. I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.
Brenda Brathwaite
#38. The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.
Ed Parker
#39. The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.
Edgar Alwin Payne
#40. How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.
Martin Firrell
#41. I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.
Richard Condon
#42. It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.
Derek R. Audette
#44. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.
David Bayles
#45. Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
Bill Budge
#46. When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Noel Fielding
#47. Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?
Mark Tobey
#48. A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
Louis Nizer
#49. Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#50. A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Hans Hofmann
#51. Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.
Ruby Rose
#52. I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
Florence Welch
#53. I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
Fetty Wap
#54. As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
Bridget Riley
#55. Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy. For me as an artist the challenge of having a child is having to think ahead a lot more. Which in a way is good, since I sometimes lack self-discipline.
Olof Arnalds
#56. The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Oscar Wilde
#57. The artist creates his own elite, and the elite its own artists.
E.H. Gombrich
#58. The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.
Harold Rosenberg
#59. That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.
SonReal
#60. If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
Lykke Li
#61. True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
Oskar Kokoschka
#62. I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
Billy Corgan
#63. Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.
Golan Levin
#64. It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.
Allison Tolman
#65. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive
Robert A. Heinlein
#66. Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.
Thomas Mann
#67. But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
Philip K. Dick
#68. And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future? What benefits would that give you? For us, it's also a question of, "Is she or isn't she?" That's really a major part of the movie.
Zal Batmanglij
#69. There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
Bono
#70. What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
Odilon Redon
#71. Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.
William Mortensen
#72. An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs,
Francis Bacon
#73. Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.
Bill Ayers
#74. Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
Kara DioGuardi
#75. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee
#76. Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
Bill Plympton
#77. A man can be an artist ... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.
Christopher Walken
#79. In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
Eugene Delacroix
#81. The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.
Frederick Lenz
#82. The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.
Isadora Duncan
#83. The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into a world of peace, of a beautiful world. They don't have to suffer in their lives.
David Lynch
#84. As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not through selfish motives. In this manner, I am giving the gift back to my Master Creator. - Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#85. If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.
Patrick Whitesell
#86. An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
Fernando Botero
#87. How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.
Harold Rosenberg
#88. The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)
James Agee
#89. Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.
Jerry Saltz
#90. Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.
Tracey Moffatt
#91. The God that Nietzsche imagined, in the end, was not far from the God that such an artist as Joseph Conrad imagines - a supreme craftsman, ever experimenting, ever coming closer to an ideal balancing of lines and forces, and yet always failing to work out the final harmony.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. But this role doesn't need an adventurer as much as it needs someone who can... look at each world with fresh eyes. Who can perceive things deeply. Not an adventurer - an artist. You were the one we needed all along.
Claudia Gray
#93. Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#94. Art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
Dore Ashton
#95. As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
Nadia Ali
#96. It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself
and that's essential for any artist, I think.
Jay-Z
#97. The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy.
Selena
#98. The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.
Kelly Miller
#99. The naturalness of life ... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
Barbara Hepworth
#100. I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.
Neil Strauss
