Artist Quotes · Page 126

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

— Edgar Degas

We used a Andy Warhol to paint the decor.

— Tyga

“Fame to an artist is like light to a vampire.”

— Rebecca Harlem

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

— Grandma Moses

I have my own label and I'm my first artist.

— Jeff Gutt

I don't want to join politics as I am an artist, and let me remain so.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

— Thomas Hoving

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

— Mickie James

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had…

— Derek R. Audette

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

— Juvenal

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is…

— Matthew Slotover

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

My favorite artist has not changed since I was five years old: Michael Jackson.

— Kemi Badenoch

I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me…

— Amber Heard

And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich…

— Santiago Martinez Delgado

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an…

— Woody Allen

“What is this plan, then? What does the great ceiling really mean? To understand it fully, we have to experience it the…

— Benjamin Blech

I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but…

— Eric Drooker

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream,…

— Ferran Adria

“What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I’d just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked…

— David Macaulay

EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

— Ben Brantley

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

— Anton Chekhov

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

— Winston Churchill

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

— Hans Hofmann

No art is possible without a dance with death.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.”

— Margaret Atwood

To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

— Bobby McFerrin

“Van Gogh couldn't have painted the stars in your eyes.”

— Nina Mouawad

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

— Anonymous

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

— Ai Weiwei

“Give Hong Kong to an Artist. He can use it. It can be poetised.”

— Baris Gencel

To be a really great standup artist, a lot of it comes from the mind.

— Sean Strickland

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

— Marina Abramovic

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

— Pierre Bonnard

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

— David Hockney

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir