Artist Quotes · Page 131

“Other times, the art becomes a condition—incredibly fitting.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

— Mason Cooley

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

— Arthur Symons

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

— Yoko Ono

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

— Seth MacFarlane

In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.

— M. Jayachandran

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

— Yolanda King

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

— Ai Weiwei

The Soulfly logo was invented by a tattoo artist, Leo Zuleta; a lot of people don't know that.

— Max Cavalera

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

— Robert J. Flaherty

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

— Pablo Picasso

My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.

— Haley Bennett

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

— Harlan Ellison

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat…

— William Scott

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the…

— Gustav Klimt

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.…

— Edward Albee

There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the…

— Mark Tobey

Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo…

— Xiaolu Guo

One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish.…

— William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human…

— Eric Drooker

A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic…

— L. Ron Hubbard

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.

— Stephane Mallarme

“And what arts did he use to separate them?”

— Jane Austen

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

— Jerry Saltz

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

— Odilon Redon

I love art. It really changes my mood and wakes me up.

— Killer Mike

I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.

— Margaret Keane

I love to draw, although I wish I was better at it.

— Fred Willard

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

— Pablo Picasso

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

— Jean Cocteau

“The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.”

— Tom Robbins

I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

— Eric Whitacre

In my eyes, either you appreciate art or you don't.

— Shobana

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

— Andy Goldsworthy

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

— Kesha

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

— Marcel Duchamp

All great art is a form of complaint

— John Cage