Artist Quotes

• To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the artist's hand so much in the process. But that means I have to learn it personally in order to do it.

  

  Dario Robleto
  • Mean
  • Personally
  • Assistants

• No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

  

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Character

• I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Sometimes

• I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Artist

• There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Way
  • Contracts
  • Streaming

• The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

  

  Wayne White
  • Artist
  • Perseverance
  • Never Give Up

• One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.

  

  Steven Stucky
  • Artist
  • Path
  • Ahead

• I can be inspired by anything. It can be from an artist, I love Georgia O'Keefe, de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Lichtenstein, Koons- I love them all. I can be inspired by an artist, a dream, something that I pass by, I was even inspired by a commercial! A commercial of whale war- I was so sad that people were killing whales to extinction, so I made a painting of that. So I can really be inspired by a lot of things.

  

  Autumn de Forest
  • Dream
  • Inspired
  • Killing

• Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

  

  Chris Johnson
  • Emotional
  • Difficult
  • Overcoming

• I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Unusual

• I always like helping young artists develop because I was a new artist myself.

  

  De La Ghetto
  • Artist
  • Helping
  • Young

• An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Faults
  • Cruelty
  • Self-centered

• The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Perfection

• Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Giving
  • Criticism
  • Praise

• If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

  

  Naum Gabo
  • Experience
  • Painting
  • Sculpture

• And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

  

  Plato
  • Sound
  • Knowing
  • Representations

• If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Artist
  • Vienna
  • Coffee Shop

• Today it's not strange to see an artist 30 years old having her first retrospective! Different time, different speed. After having been the key point of recognition for an artist, the museum today is just another place to experiment and work, like we can do in any art fair. The king or queen of the moment is completely ignored and replaced by the new one a few years later. Contemporary novelty in art disappears faster than the seasonable changes of the fashion designs.

  

  Daniel Buren
  • Different
  • Today
  • Fashion

• The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

  

  Albert Pinkham Ryder
  • True
  • Dream
  • Artist

• When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Today
  • Creating
  • Immortal

• For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.

  

  Wolfgang Beltracchi
  • Creative
  • Courses
  • Statements

• A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

  

  Christian Keiber
  • Die
  • Artist
  • Create

• Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

  

  Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Made

• Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Feelings

1

...

62

63

64

65

66

...

89

previous

next