Quotes about art
art tears culture
On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down. Amanda Palmer
art jobs stars
I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.
artist unexpected feels
You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
art should
Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.
artist dots share
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
art nice world
It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!
art real parent
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
art simple thinking
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
art clouds shame
There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
artist thinking meditation
I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.
artist faces musician
One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.
art simple differences
In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.
art empathy healthy
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
art way photographer
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter. Annie Parisse
artist shooting helping
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not. Annie Leibovitz
artist stones rolling
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
artist awkward want
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
art photographer taking-pictures
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
artist vocabulary style
I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
artist one-day mystery
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
artist information faces
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
artist metal-fans weight
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
artist talking needs
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
artist would-be different
I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
artist choices environmental
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
artist cameras photographer
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
artist scared wanted
I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
artist enough feels
I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance. Annie Lennox
artist statements
Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
artist elements picnics
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
artist singing singers
If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.
artist two pepsi
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
art mind collaboration
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge. Annie Dillard