Artist Quotes · Page 134

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.

— Devendra Banhart

“It's not Art. And Art is not Design.”

— Chip Kidd

With art, your motor sense should be developed at full capacity.

— Ruth Asawa

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

— Bill Dedman

I like art. It's another way to rebel.

— John Waters

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

— Reese Witherspoon

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— Pablo Picasso

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

— Kiki Smith

The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

— Horace Walpole

“Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.”

— William H. Gass

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

— Ezra Pound

I think that might just be how it works to be an artist: you have to pick yourself up and write something…

— Eva Victor

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

— Tom T. Hall

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

— George Santayana

“My hope for you is not only to learn skills through this collection of projects, but also that it brings you a…

— Chantal Larocque

I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize…

— Brett Morgen

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the…

— Susan Sontag

For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be…

— Janet Fish

Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art…

— Nina Garcia

A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the…

— Anonymous

It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all…

— John Berger

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Entertainment and art are not isolated

— Martin Kippenberger

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

— Douglas Lockwood

“Art is the closest thing I have to faith.”

— Abigail Boyd

I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was - I survived Def Jam.

— Black Thought

Great trouble breeds great art, I think.

— Jesmyn Ward

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

— Martin Freeman

Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.

— Taika Waititi

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

— Gertrude Atherton

A good artist is a bad artist who never gave up.

— Anonymous

“Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.

— Danielle LaPorte

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

— Melanie Martinez

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

— Lou Reed

In Korea, I'm not a K-pop artist, I'm just an artist.

— Eric Nam

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson