Artist Quotes · Page 155

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

— Albert Camus

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

— Randall Jarrell

“In art, don't you see, there is no first person.”

— Oscar Wilde

I think every artist should go for a Grammy.

— Lil Durk

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

— Hideo Kojima

When I was a kid, I always used to paint. I like to draw.

— Marky Ramone

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

— Paul Klee

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

— Ansel Adams

“No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.”

— F.K. Preston

I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe…

— Ravi Shankar

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard…

— Nick Cave

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite…

— W. H. Auden

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

— Solange Knowles

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.

— Edward Ruscha

Being in a group, you don't really get to give an ounce of who you are as a solo artist.

— Dinah Jane

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads…

— Paul McCartney

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in…

— Herb Alpert

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I…

— Henri Matisse

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives…

— Louis Kahn

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy…

— Agnes Varda

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is…

— Randall Jarrell

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.'…

— Ellie Kemper

I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people…

— Juicy J

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

— Aby Rosen

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

— Larry Rivers

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

— Terri Windling

When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“You become an artist once you start saying that you are an artist”

— Steven Pressfield

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.

— Pablo Picasso

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

— George Crabbe

“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. ”

— Henry David Thoreau

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.

— Alex Turner

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.

— Charles M. Schulz

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

— Shia LaBeouf

the truth is artistically fallacious.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.

— Kelsea Ballerini

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

— Khalil Gibran