Quotes of: Artiste Keyword

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

Charles Saatchi

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Edward Hopper

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Edward Steichen

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Frida Giannini

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

Gianni Versace

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Paulo Coelho

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

Jeffrey Deitch

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

Jacob Epstein

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

Jerry Saltz

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

Jerry Saltz

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Larry Wall

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Queen Latifah

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Rainer Maria Rilke

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

Sol LeWitt

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Steven Pinker

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

Sufjan Stevens

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

W. Somerset Maugham

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

Wesley Snipes

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Sula