As an entrepreneur, you are always looking for inspiration and motivation. But sometimes it can be hard to find the right words to keep you going. Luckily, artists have been inspiring people for centuries with their words of wisdom.
The best artist quotes
1. An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. — Oscar Wilde
2. Great artists suffer for the people. — Marvin Gaye
3. It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. — Oscar Wilde
4. I’ve always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. — Renee Fleming
5. Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Before ‘Gangnam Style’ I was not a good attitude artist. — PSY
7. Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have ’em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive. — Waylon Jennings
8. When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn. — Walt Disney
9. You have to be an artist and a madman… — Vladimir Nabokov
10. My father said that artists see the world differently than normal people. I see a tree where you mights see a collection of lines, shapes, and shadows. — Stacey H. Lee
11. When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn. — Walt Disney
12. My wife was a make–up artist, and she’s a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. — Robert Carlyle
13. I’m not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story. — Tyler Perry
14. Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras
15. It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human. — Tim Mann artist
16. Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. — Montgomery Clift
17. Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre–conceived ideas. — Swami Vivekananda
18. I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician. — Tom Brady
19. Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live — Muriel Rukeyser
20. I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw. — Tim Burton
21. Be an artist — you can get away with anything.
22. Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live — Muriel Rukeyser
23. ‘he said, ”Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.’ — Russell Banks
24. Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers. — Martin Luther King
25. An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. — Michelangelo
26. I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. — Muhammad Iqbal
27. Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. — Marty Rubin
28. Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby. — Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
29. It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work. — P. G. Wodehouse
30. Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice. — Paul Robeson
31. I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. — Oscar Wilde
32. In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. — Toni Morrison
33. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*. — Peter O
34. We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it? — Shirley Graham Du Bois
35. Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists. — Marty Rubin
36. My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it. — Shia LaBeouf
37. An artist always know everything he does, you know what I’m saying, all the record he starts and don’t end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive. — Nipsey Hussle
38. The talents of an artist, small or large, are God–given… They are a sacred trust. — Paul Robeson
39. The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin
40. Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise. — Virginia Woolf
41. A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. — Oscar Wilde
42. Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that. — Stevie Wonder
43. An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously. — Michael Jackson
44. A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object. — Richard Schickel
45. Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. — Max Weber
46. A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists. — Matt Cameron
47. I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together. — Phylicia Rashad
48. It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. — Tim Burton
49. An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality. — Pablo Picasso
50. Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself. — Tori Amos
Conclusion
Overall, there is no single best quote about artists. Each artist has their own unique perspective, and their words of wisdom reflect that. Whether it’s the brilliant words of a masterful Renaissance painter, or the poetic musings of a modern-day singer, every artist has something valuable to offer for us to learn from. So, go ahead and explore the words of artists that speak to you, and take away some of their best lessons.
