Artist Quotes · Page 137

You need the art in order to love the life.

— Nicholson Baker

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

— John Lennon

I've slowly become more comfortable as an artist and as a person.

— Kirstin Maldonado

“Art is dead, but the student is necrophiliac.”

— Internationale situationniste

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

— Shohreh Aghdashloo

“The critic dissects. The artist unifies.”

— C.M. Subasic

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

— Austin Kleon

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions,

— Marc Quinn

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

— Wes Borland

I should get a college art credit for the masterpieces I have drawn on my passed out roommates.

— Anonymous

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from…

— Eminem

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

— Joseph Raffael

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

— Norman Reilly Raine

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

— Noel Gallagher

“Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot…

— John Berger

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I…

— Al Pacino

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity…

— Rudolf Arnheim

If you're just starting off as an artist, steal as much inspiration from everything you like, as much as you can. Take…

— Yukimi Nagano

I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very…

— Jared Leto

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide…

— Marshall McLuhan

Paintings, people really don't understand... They don't really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house.

— Faith Ringgold

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the…

— Neil MacGregor

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

— Amedee Ozenfant

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

— Hakim Bey

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

— Herbert Read

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

— Seth MacFarlane

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

— Henry Fuseli

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

— Richard MacDonald

I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

— Edward Elgar

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

“When you realise the circle is a circle, you can understand art”

— Greta Bellamacina

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

— Faith Salie

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

— Banksy

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

— Kesh

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

— Sam Lipsyte

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

— Patti Smith