Artist quotes

Discover insightful quotes from renowned artists and creative minds. Inspiring words that capture the essence of art and the imagination. Explore our collection of quotes that celebrate the passion and talent of artists.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

- Roberto Burle Marx

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

- Raymond Chandler

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.

- Don Ellis

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

- Ludwig Bemelmans

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

- Anish Kapoor

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

- Sugar Ray Leonard

I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

- Pete Townshend

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

- Brad Holland

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

- Michelangelo

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

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.

- Steven Curtis Chapman

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

- Max Eastman

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

- Jerry Lawler

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

- Jackson Pollock

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

- Lukas Foss

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

- Utada Hikaru

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

- Barbara Kruger

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

- Federico Fellini

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

- Georges Rouault

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

- Eminem

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

- David Lean

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

- Helena Rubinstein

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

- Andre Malraux

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

- Carl Maria von Weber

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

- Placido Domingo

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

- Andy Goldsworthy

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

- Laurie Anderson

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

- Paul Westerberg

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

- Eugene Delacroix