Artist Quotes · Page 114

“The great artists and poets may have gone, but football is here.”

— Phil Ball

“Art cannot be Mastered, be a student for lifetime.”

— Balkrishn Sanmotra

You can never make a piece of art that pleases everybody.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

— Franz Kline

For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space.

— Petra Collins

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

— George Saunders

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

— Don Van Vliet

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

— Robert Rauschenberg

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my…

— Martha Wainwright

I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I…

— Owen Pallett

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

— Henry Miller

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

— Sanford Meisner

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

— Shelley Duvall

“For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right.”

— Ed Catmull

I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

— Lady Gaga

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I…

— Vernon Davis

Acting is really creative, and there's artistry to it, but I don't think that just because you're an actor, you're an artist.…

— Noah Reid

It is only by loving nature, and going to her for everything, that good work can be done; but then we must…

— Henry Peach Robinson

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to…

— Asger Jorn

I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is…

— Dave Chappelle

“the original commission for the ceiling was a plan designed by the pope and his closest advisers. Jesus was to have been…

— Benjamin Blech

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want…

— Ice T

The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes…

— L.A. Reid

I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine…

— AraabMuzik

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

— John Berger

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

— Cee Lo Green

“Batman’s cape would make a great canvas for a cave painting.”

— Jarod Kintz

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

— Dave Davies

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

— Laurie Anderson

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

— Fritz Lang

“I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art.”

— Julianna Baggott

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

— Marilyn Manson

The power of art can open our minds.

— Edmund Capon

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

— Kehinde Wiley

“Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm Kiss the artist, and Jason the father. It's my job.

— Jadakiss

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

— Martin Mull

“Art is like fruit, owing out of man—like the child out of its mother.”

— Hans Arp

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

— Edith Sitwell