Artist Quotes · Page 122

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

— Cesare Pavese

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

— Albert Camus

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

— Juan Gabriel

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

— Lee Krasner

Every artist wants to connect with the listener.

— LP

“I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.”

— Paul Gauguin

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye…

— John Legend

I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be…

— Dan Povenmire

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

— Jay Sankey

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

— N. C. Wyeth

When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about.

— Jinkx Monsoon

There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about…

— Richard Cabral

I'm from the suburbs, really, so I actually didn't go to Montreal until I was, like, 19. I wasn't allowed to go…

— Kaytranada

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all…

— Dorothea Lange

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to…

— Mos Def

As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything…

— Kevin Drew

“When people fail to recognize your work just don't give up yet. Because it's not always about the recognition, sometimes it's about…

— Gowtham Gurunath

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as…

— Francoise Gilot

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood…

— Giuseppe Verdi

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.

— Eric Maisel

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist works by locating the world in himself

— Gertrude Stein

The power of art is the power of truth.

— Julian Beck

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

— Clive Barker

Fingers trace your every outline paint a picture with my hands.

— Maroon 5

Good art is never made in studio. Good art I make in life.

— Marina Abramovic

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

— Marcel Duchamp

There is no standard way of using painting techniques.

— Wu Guanzhong

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

— Stephen King

Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.

— Eva Hesse

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

— Conrad Hall

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

— Carla Gugino

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

— Ted Godwin

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

— Benjamin Haydon

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

— Stefan Zweig