Artist Quotes

“Art is my Life.”

— Olivia Sinaga

Me as a drawing

— Samantha Skye

“Rules kill art.”

— H.G. Mewis

“Magic is logic.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Art is in you.”

— Iimani David

Artifice is art.

— Sonia Rykiel

Just a collage

— Anonymous

Art is truth.

— Warren Beatty

What is art? Nature concentrated.

— Honore de Balzac

Artist known as unknown

— Loneliest_love

Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

— Ernest West Basden

I paint my own reality.

— Frida Kahlo

Repetition is the death of art.

— Robin Green

There is no progress in art.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

Art can contradict Science.

— Austin Osman Spare

Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.

— Will Gompertz

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

— Ludwig Bemelmans

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

— Robert Wilson

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

— Christopher Alexander

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

— Richard Ford

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

— Pablo Picasso

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

— Haruki Murakami

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

— Willem de Kooning

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

— Robert Rauschenberg

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of…

— Melina Marchetta

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

— Madeleine L'Engle

You see how Jay-Z has evolved from 'Reasonable Doubt' to now being Shawn Carter. You have to grow to be a superstar…

— Trina

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

— Leonardo da Vinci

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

— Lionel Hampton

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that…

— Jean Dubuffet

I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.

— Astro

“Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that…

— Caio Fonseca

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of…

— Hans Rookmaaker

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish…

— John F. Carlson

Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how…

— Adria Petty

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have…

— Lena Dunham

“In my small way I became an integral part of the pottery movement, and added fuel to the fire which consumed New…

— Theresa Sjoquist

When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a…

— Andrei Tarkovsky