Artist Quotes · Page 112

“Dance is the ritual of immortality.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.

— Angie Martinez

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

— Paul Cezanne

“Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.”

— Truth Devour

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

No disrespect the riches is the art.

— Mac Miller

I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.

— Joel Kinnaman

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

— Eric Cantona

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

— Gustave Courbet

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

— John Piper

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

— Tony Kushner

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

— Pierre Soulages

I cant even find the perfect brush so I can paint whats qoinq thru myi mind

— Drake -Brand New

I want to be the Tory Burch of India - never once moving from my aesthetic, but offering a story and putting…

— Masaba Gupta

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

— Veronica Roth

I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.

— PSY

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to…

— Jeff Koons

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art…

— Donald Judd

The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you…

— Mark Edward

Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,…

— Martin Amis

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of…

— Anonymous

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill.…

— Albert Camus

We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that…

— Anna Deavere Smith

“It (Andre Malraux's The Psychology of Art)was too expensive to buy but I located a copy of this luminous book in the…

— Vernon Sproxton

Artist, be brave! Go and make the most of what you do best!

— Ana Tzarev

“You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills.”

— Carole Maso

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

— Jerry Saltz

The artist should always be the student.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

— Bono

You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.

— Heidi Baker

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

— Jerry Saltz

Art express our emotions beyond our own language.

— Feona Suñiga

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

— Patti Smith

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

— Ricky Martin

“DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Sure,” Picasso replied. “Twenty thousand dollars.”

— Mark Manson

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

— Henri Matisse

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

— J. M. W. Turner

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

— Tavi Gevinson

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

— Chali 2na