2168 Artist Quotes for You to Enjoy

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them. Jerry Saltz

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years? Jerry Saltz

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Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight. Jerry Saltz

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I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist. Jerry Seinfeld

Myself Think More Sportsman Than Artist

In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s. Jerry Yang

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As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter. Jesmyn Ward

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Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil. Jesse Harris

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. Jessica Alba

Family Musicians Everyone Some Blood Artist Whether Capacity Painters

During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist. Jessica Sanchez

I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist. Jessica Simpson

Type Kind Artist Publicity

I'm not a model, I'm an artist. In one of my videos, I'm doing this shot of me with no make-up on where I've just woken up, and I don't think a lot of people would be comfortable enough to do that. But that's the way I look. This is who I am. Let's enjoy it. Let's just live life to the full while we're all here. Jessie J

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I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard. Jessie J

You Sometimes Also Artist Hard Businesswoman Play

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what. Jessie J

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I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now. Jessie J

Me Struggle Made Glad Had Am Artist Now

If I wasn't doing music, I would be a makeup artist. Jessie James Decker

Music Would Would-Be Makeup Doing Artist

The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist. Jessie Mueller

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I'm glad to say I'm experiencing more of a conversation in my artistic workforce world than I ever have before. But it's a job, as an artist, to reflect the world we live in; that's our job. Jessie Mueller

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Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history. Jidenna

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Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to. Jill Scott

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I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world. Jim Drain

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