Artist Quotes · Page 14

“I'm an artist not an athlete.”

— Lisa Schroeder

“Art feasts upon its maker”

— David Mitchell

Mase was never a filthy artist.

— Mase

I will be a historical painter.

— William Allan

Drawing is the honesty of art.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

I wanted to be a painter.

— Max Cannon

My Paintings are Battles.

— Georg Baselitz

Paint faster than you can think.

— Alex Katz

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

— Naum Gabo

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

— Alexander Stoddart

“Monet was a radical before he was a calendar.”

— Anne Jamison

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

— Carol P. Christ

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

— Grandma Moses

Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.

— Paul Virilio

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

— Natalia Makarova

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal…

— Kimon Nicolaides

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

— Marilyn Ferguson

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

— Raymond Chandler

“Pictures tell the story of actual impulse in the artist—or the lack of it.”

— Robert Henri

Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch.

— Sarnath Banerjee

“FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.”

— Jack Kerouac

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

— Tucker Max

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

— Jean Cocteau

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different;…

— Jacques Lipchitz

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your…

— Richard Schmid

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously…

— Arnold Bennett

In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins... We should question, speak out and…

— Mark A. Brennan

Back in I want to say 2011, Taylor Swift was on her 'Speak Now' tour. She was kind enough to bring me…

— Charlie Worsham

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very…

— Herbie Hancock

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers…

— Seth Godin

An artist is an explorer.

— Henri Matisse

The best artists are gone now.

— Johnny Winter

“Parke-Bernet Galleries.”

— E.L. Konigsburg

I was never a good artist.

— William Hanna

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

— Stephen Tobolowsky

I'm not the average artist.

— DMX

Art is man determined to die sane.

— Bernard DeVoto

I want to draw something like this

— Anonymous