The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley
What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore. — Yusaku Maezawa
Great artists suffer for the people. — Marvin Gaye
An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way — Sayings
In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece — Kai Greene
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. — George Bellows
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective — Wayne Thiebaud
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Favorite Artist Quotes
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music. — Chance the Rapper
I love my 'Boom Clap.' Charli XCX is a big one for me. — Joe Gatto
My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are! — Johnny Ramone
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who ispires others.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. — Robert Hughes
My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly. — Taylor Swift
My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all. — Tracey Emin
Every artist was first an amateur.
My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration. — M. Ward
People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones. — Johnny Cash
Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to. — Kid Cudi
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn
The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist. — Ellen G. White
A great chef is an artist that I truly respect. — Robert Stack
Character is built by striving to be kind, not famous.
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal. — Sherrie Levine
Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. — Rick Rubin
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. — Steven Seagal
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea? — David Lee Roth
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience. — Shelley Winters
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. — Shelley Winters
Famous Singer Quotes
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste. — Sarah Vaughan
She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer. — Ella Fitzgerald
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness? — Susanna Kaysen
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer. — Lee Ryan
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. — William Wordsworth
I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed? — Eric Greitens
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist
There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know? — Eva Green
I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs. — Dolly Parton
The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things. — Mike Dooley
Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record. — George Harrison
Good Artist Quotes
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay...now be Samurai. — Jerzy Grotowski
One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art. — Sally Mann
I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again. — Akira Toriyama
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US. — Pat Garrett
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously. — Wim Crouwel
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. — Alexander Calder
I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page. — Akira Toriyama
Fine Artists Quotes
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. — Emile Zola
Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist after you grow up.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. — Francisco Goya
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. — Andy Warhol
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. — Helena Rubinstein
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. — Marc Chagall
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so. — Henri Matisse
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. — Rembrandt
I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word. — Pharoah Sanders
Famous Actor Quotes
There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor? — Mary Astor
It's not my goal to be a famous actor. — Gavin DeGraw
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. — Marlon Brando
Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. — Lou Gehrig
Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of. — Tia Carrere
I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too. — Cory Monteith
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. — Michael Douglas
As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting. — Idris Elba
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. — Oliver Stone
Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body. — Wim Wenders
Being An Artist Quotes
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. — Langston Hughes
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life — Diego Rivera
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see. — Diego Rivera
Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot, but I mean a very broad thing with that. You could be a veterinarian, that's your art. Find your art; find your thing you love. — Gerard Way
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist. — Kara Walker
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. — Alberto Giacometti
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms...
Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done. — Joseph Beuys
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. — Wassily Kandinsky
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee. — Banksy
Famous Music Quotes
People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play. — Ozzy Osbourne
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. — Wynonna Judd
The world's most famous and popular language is music. — PSY
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music. — Gioachino Rossini
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. — Charles Darwin
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. — Robert Smith
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. — Charlie Parker
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance. — Ambrose Bierce
Woman Artist Quotes
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins. — Joan D. Chittister
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that. — Guy de Maupassant
I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful. — Bobbi Brown
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. — Maria Callas
It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany… Most of our male colleagues continued for a long time to look upon us as charming and gifted amateurs, denying us implicitly any real professional status. — Hannah Hoch
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. — Georg Baselitz
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color. — Mary Cassatt
The only thing I know is that I know nothing — Socrates
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. — Alice Neel
Visual Artist Quotes
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. — Anthony Bourdain
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual. — Edward Tufte
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo
What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough. — A. Y. Jackson
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts. — Richard Diebenkorn
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars. — Steve Albini
We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography. — Piet Zwart
Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense. — Scott Kahn
Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw. — Daniel H. Pink
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be. — Ai Weiwei
I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power. — Kerry James Marshall
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions. — Kiki Smith
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration. — Peter Paul Rubens
Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose. — Gordon Matta-Clark
Art is all about doing what you shouldn't. — Nobuyoshi Araki
You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it — Gordon Matta-Clark
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. — Pablo Picasso
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it. — Ellsworth Kelly
Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery. — Anne Truitt
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do. — Richard Schmid
Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation — Mr. Brainwash
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. — Kazimir Malevich
I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer. — Peter Lik
Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. — Sol LeWitt
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. — William Faulkner
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. — James Whistler
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too — Vincent Van Gogh
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. — Vincent Van Gogh
Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace. — Nicholas Roerich
Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects. — Joseph Kosuth
It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. — Muhammad Ali
A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art. — Shepard Fairey
I don't say everything, but I paint everything. — Pablo Picasso
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror. — Franz Liszt
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. — Andy Warhol
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
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. — Jackson Pollock
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