Artist Quotes · Page 163

I just want people to see my growth as an artist, and singer.

— Leon Bridges

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

— Stephen Sprouse

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

— Carl Maria von Weber

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.

— John Ruskin

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing.”

— Stephen King

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

— Georges Braque

Sometimes when you're an artist, you need to be in your own head; you need to stay in it to be able…

— Santigold

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the…

— Gerhard Richter

There was nobody telling me, 'You should be an artist,' or, 'You should be an actor.'

— Frank Grillo

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style.…

— Pierce Brosnan

Paint heavily leaking. I guess it wasn't finished. Riding with something freaky. They tell me she the business.

— Trae Tha Truth

Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, 'I'm a crunk artist. I make crunk music.'

— Lil Jon

I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels…

— Adele

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with…

— Paul Gauguin

It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of…

— David Foster

The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they…

— Marjorie Harris

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically…

— Hans Haacke

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you…

— Walter Mosley

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or…

— Marcel Duchamp

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have…

— Robert Rauschenberg

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

— Shirley Knight

We draw all the way from the Treasure Coast to the Keys.

— Ryan Ross

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

— Anita Baker

“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.”

— Paul Klee

Realism and art cannot live together.

— Jeanette Lee

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

— J. G. Holland

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

— Max Bill

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

— David Gerrold

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

— John Dryden

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

— Henry James

“A canvas needs to be seduced; but Van Gogh, he, he raped it.”

— Zouave Milliet

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

— Eliel Saarinen

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

— Paul Simon

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

— Camille Henrot

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

— Dylan Thomas

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

— Gary Busey