Artist Quotes · Page 140

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

— Robert Motherwell

“I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

— Erich Segal

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

— Nazanin Boniadi

“What deserves my loyalty, art or prestige?”

— Anis Shivani

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

— Karl Lagerfeld

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

— Seth

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

— Andre Maurois

“The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.”

— Dada Bhagwan

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

— David Choe

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

— Lady Gaga

I grew as an artist and a person. I'm just ready to work, get this money, get this new fan base and…

— Lil Durk

O delicious kiss, Why thou so sudden art gone? Lost in the moment thou art won?

— John Wolcot

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on…

— Winston Churchill

God is the artist, nature is his canvas, and I'm just the admirer of his work.

— Elizabeth Homp

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

— Arthur Erickson

I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They…

— Christian McBride

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization…

— Yoko Ono

“Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe…

— Zibby Oneal

Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make…

— Andre Malraux

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs…

— Paul Rand

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality…

— Lee Krasner

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted…

— Nelly Mazloum

It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see…

— Steve Reich

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

— Edgar Degas

“Art is not about art. Art is about life.   L. B.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

— Bill Budge

Many artists feel resistance on the way up.

— Chanel West Coast

The human body is the best work of art

— Anonymous

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

— Placido Domingo

Art has no end but its own perfection.

— Plato

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

— Eric Maisel

Each painting evolves freely and independently.

— Fernando Araujo Perdomo

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

— Beck

There is no history of artthere is the history of artists.

— Marianne von Werefkin

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

— Antoine Bourdelle

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

— John Constable

“Creating art is basically creating a series of failures”

— Alex Pardee

People in misery is what most important in art.

— Zhang Yimou

Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

— Ouida