Artist Quotes · Page 166

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

— Red Barber

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

— Franz Kline

“Art cannot be Mastered, be a student for lifetime.”

— Balkrishn Sanmotra

You can never make a piece of art that pleases everybody.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

— George Saunders

For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space.

— Petra Collins

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

— Robert Rauschenberg

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

— Eric Maisel

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

— Aristotle

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

— Robert Genn

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

— Don Watson

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

— Toni Servillo

“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.”

— Tim Kreider

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

— Anne Lamott

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to…

— Edvard Munch

More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink…

— Lawrence Osborne

I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where…

— Brian Tyree Henry

At first, things weren't going my way. I was something new - no one was going to take a chance on a…

— Jimmie Allen

I am not indulgent. I think constructing a scene elaborately - with art, costume, and visual drama - is not indulgence. Other…

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of…

— George Mason

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery,…

— Max Ernst

All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to…

— William Faulkner

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

— Don Van Vliet

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

— John Berger

“Batman’s cape would make a great canvas for a cave painting.”

— Jarod Kintz

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

— Cee Lo Green

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

— Laurie Anderson

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

— Dave Davies

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

— Kehinde Wiley

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

— Marilyn Manson

The power of art can open our minds.

— Edmund Capon

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

— Fritz Lang

“I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art.”

— Julianna Baggott

I'm Kiss the artist, and Jason the father. It's my job.

— Jadakiss

“Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

— Martin Mull

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

— Edith Sitwell