Artist Quotes · Page 160

There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.

— Megan Mullally

“Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.”

— Jacqueline Patricks

I am a touring artist - I get a kick out of it, like, a huge kick.

— Cher Lloyd

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

— Martha Graham

“Paint a good picture if you want to see a good image.”

— Evans Biya

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

— Paul Bourget

No art comes from the conscious mind.

— Steve Martin

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

— Pierre Bonnard

If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power…

— George L. Carlson

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

— Chris Gardner

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

— Daniel Clowes

My favorite soul artist, I would have to say D'Angelo. That's R&B, soul. Trap artist, I would probably have to say...Young Thug.

— Bryson Tiller

I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.

— Lana Del Rey

“Something in your brushwork touches the heart, Issun. You never abandoned your life as an artist after all.”

— Oki

“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.”

— Robert Baldwin Ross

“Mario'd fallen in love with the first Madam Psychosis programs because he felt like he was listening to someone sad read out…

— David Foster Wallace

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with…

— Steve Prefontaine

It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something…

— Antony Gormley

What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since…

— Lester Bangs

I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or…

— Shawn Mendes

With Martha Stewart, the power of the brand, the power of television, taught me that if you can marry all those ingredients…

— Charles Koppelman

For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're…

— Travis Beacham

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out…

— Tyler Farr

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

— Helen Van Wyk

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

— Joseph Beuys

A painter is a choreographer of space.

— Barnett Newman

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

— John Donne

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

— Gutzon Borglum

The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.

— Igor Babailov

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

— Anish Kapoor

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

— Robert Rauschenberg

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

— Grimes

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

— Anonymous

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really

— Will Ferrell

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

— Steven Wright

This is another pic that I drawn in art

— Liza

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

— Kimon Nicolaides

Anything can be painted without representation.

— Agnes Martin

The best artists know what to leave out.

— Charles de Lint