Artist Quotes · Page 127

“The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose.”

— Kyle Muntz

This picture you see is nothing like the one I painted of me.

— Counting Crows

“...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...”

— John Geddes

Part of my job has always been to respect the privacy of the artists.

— Glyn Johns

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

— Marion Milner

I think of myself as a healing artist.

— Lynn Nottage

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.”

— Seth

The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

— Thomas Aikens

“[...] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.”

— Alain de Botton

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's why they call it artWORK!

— Lee Hammond

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when…

— Anish Kapoor

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you…

— Harry Callahan

Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of…

— John French Sloan

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then…

— John Baldessari

Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.

— Lights

I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself.

— Drake

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the…

— Jerry Saltz

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided…

— Bruce Lee

My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And,…

— Temple Grandin

My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the…

— Edward Burtynsky

In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts…

— John F. Kennedy

I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that…

— Sarah Shahi

I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were…

— John Polson

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

— Ashley Montagu

I'd need an incredibly talented make up artist to make me look natural!

— Donatella Versace

I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.

— Alan Taylor

“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”

— William Saroyan

I'm an artist. I've been doing storyboards for a long, long time.

— Andy Muschietti

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

— Edward Dahlberg

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

— Henry Miller

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

— David Hockney

An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

— Geoffrey Wolff

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

— Eugene Delacroix

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

— Pete Townshend

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

— Robert Carlyle

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

— Neil Gaiman

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

— Nina Simone

“Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it.”

— Charles F. Glassman

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

— Eric Church