Artist Quotes · Page 136

The value of art is in the observer.

— Agnes Martin

The artist after all is a solitary being.

— Virginia Woolf

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

— Duane Michals

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

— Madonna Ciccone

“...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

— Jeffrey Archer

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

— Peter Greenaway

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

— Timothy Zahn

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge…

— Cher Lloyd

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the…

— Brandon Boyd

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy…

— Malvina Hoffman

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I…

— Michael Palin

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

— Bruce Nauman

Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much…

— Jamie Hewlett

I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and…

— Janet Jackson

This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion…

— Henry Selick

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other…

— Frank Gehry

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went…

— Mick Farren

Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward…

— John Mellencamp

There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something…

— Tina Weymouth

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually…

— Carolyn Kizer

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Without art we are but monkeys with car keys.

— Anonymous

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

— John Marin

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

There is no such thing as #1 in art.

— Mike Birbiglia

“Art is the weapon. Your imagination is the ammunition.”

— Frank Iero

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

— Vivek Shraya

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

— Nas

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

— Antony Gormley

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

— Jonathan Franzen

Tom the cat how did I do on this drawing :)

— Brianna Ramos

Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work

— Tara Donovan

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

— Theodor Mommsen

I studied realism when I was in art school.

— Peter Max

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

— Octavio Paz