Artists Quotes

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck

Great, Teacher, Mind

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Children, Problem, Once

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
John Lennon

Cannot, Again, Worship

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

Good, Great, Copy

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
William S. Burroughs

Change, Mind, Political

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike

Men, Poor, Genius

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
Maynard James Keenan

Hurt, Insane, Eccentric

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
Carroll O'Connor

Talent, Both, Gift

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Gore Vidal

Life, Love, Important

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Henry Rollins

Good, Give, Same

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert

Everything, Cannot, Perfection

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!
Cat Cora

Life, Best, Successful

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
Thom Yorke

Music, Art, Freedom

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Business, Force

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

Life, Great, Art

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.
P. J. O'Rourke

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
Jean Houston

Life, Experience, Human

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

Immature, Mature, Steal

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
Marilyn Manson

Trying, Musicians, Taking

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Mason Cooley

Few, Artistic, Afford

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Michelangelo

Best, Alone, Within

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky

Great, Steal, Borrow

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard

Work, Freedom, Working

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Yoko Ono

Lonely, True, Sense

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Power, Art

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.
Jerry Saltz

Long, Bored, Leaving

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey

Time, Heart, True

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
Lady Gaga

Money, Working, Whatever

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
Lady Gaga

Next, Interested

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.
Jerry Saltz

Greatest, Talk, Generation

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