Artist Quotes · Page 15

Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.

— Gottfried Helnwein

Art is a delayed echo.

— George Santayana

My art became very public.

— Joey Skaggs

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

— Oscar Wilde

Art is the daughter of freedom.

— Friedrich Schiller

Art is science made clear.

— Wilson Mizner

Sometimes I like to draw.

— Benjamin Stockham

There is no art without Eros.

— Max Frisch

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

— Ray Davies

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

— Anish Kapoor

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

— David Lynch

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

— Jackson Pollock

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

— Willow Smith

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

— Edi Rama

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

— Walter Annenberg

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,

— Brian K. Vaughan

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

— Rudolf Steiner

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

— Luis Bunuel

“I worked with a sketch artist, but I was driving fast when I saw the suspect, so the drawing came out blurry.”

— Jarod Kintz

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

— Len Wein

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

— Big Sean

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

— Carly Chaikin

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

— Aubrey Beardsley

The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with…

— Corey Stoll

“But fans, including critics, of particular movements of artists, tend to want what they love to stay the same, the regression is…

— George Grella Jr

But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then…

— Danielle Dutton

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the…

— Sol LeWitt

In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of…

— Salman Rushdie

“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was…

— Romain Gary

My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got…

— Khalid

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means,…

— David Bayles

I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to…

— Howard Shore

If it has a use it isn't art.

— Paterson Ewen

The arts don't exist in isolation.

— David Byrne

All art is a confession.

— Gaston Lachaise

“Mediocrity is Death.”

— Suleman Abdullah

“Art is the medicine for the soul.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Art is an explosion.”

— Masashi Kishimoto

Propaganda rarely makes good art.

— Susan Sutherland Isaacs

Pop art is about liking things.

— Andy Warhol