Artist Quotes · Page 144

I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

— Glenn Ligon

“A city full of art is a city full of wit!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

— Christo

“...don't tear people down just because they criticize your art.”

— Tyler Hojberg

Painting is more important than art.

— Wayne Thiebaud

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

— H. L. Mencken

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

If I wasn't doing music, I would be a makeup artist.

— Jessie James Decker

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

— Eleanora Duse

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that…

— Amy Poehler

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am…

— Claes Oldenburg

“Life is closely related to science than art because it has more practicals”

— Samir Pradhan

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

— James Rosenquist

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything…

— John Currin

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.

— Steven Pressfield

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

— Armie Hammer

Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people…

— Ben Sollee

When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I…

— Kehinde Wiley

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and…

— James Jackson Jarves

I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing…

— Bob Ross

Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,…

— Tennessee Williams

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries…

— Hakim Bey

Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.

— William Soutar

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

— Iimani David

The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

— Austin O'Malley

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

— Luis Fonsi

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Consuming art should involve investment and risk.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I'd become the little surfer in my childhood drawings.

— Garrett McNamara

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

— Hilda Doolittle

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture…

— Paul Cezanne

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

A Lot More Me' is the culmination of 10 years of work as a drag artist.

— Violet Chachki

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

— Rachel Bloom

The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.

— Hannah Gadsby

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

— D. H. Lawrence

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

— William Blake

My song is going to need dope lyrics to lure the honeys in!

— Ramandeep Singh