Artist Quotes · Page 168

There was very little art in my childhood.

— Jasper Johns

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

— Lionel Richie

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.

— Rose McGowan

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

— Louisa May Alcott

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

— Kim Weston

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

— Jackson Pollock

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

— Erich Fromm

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

— Salman Rushdie

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really…

— Alessia Cara

As for today's music, Nicki Minaj is killing it. She's an amazing artist.

— Neon Hitch

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

— Elia Kazan

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

An artist has to know who she is and to be consistent in building her career.

— Anitta

“All artists give birth. It's alchemy and it's really an amazing process.”

— Jewel

“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”

— Annette Messager

There's a market for art, and things are indeed going swimmingly, especially for German artists. But everything takes place in America and…

— Georg Baselitz

When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and…

— Emile Chartier

A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I haven't figured out how to do anything yet besides recording music - I don't even entirely know how to do that.…

— Willis Earl Beal

“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the…

— Max Beckmann

“We might say that both the artist and the neurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it…

— Ernest Becker

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.…

— Jerry Saltz

The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with…

— Mos Def

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

— Arshile Gorky

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

— Steve Martin

I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.

— Wade Guyton

I like to paint - I love arts and crafts.

— Jessica Mauboy

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

— Georg Baselitz

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

— Marina Abramovic

“Whenever Picasso learned how to do something, he abandoned it.”

— Austin Kleon

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

— David Sedaris

Art should be for everyone, not just the rich.

— Zawe Ashton

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

— Anonymous

Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.

— Akira Toriyama

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

— Chuck D

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

— Ai Weiwei

“When nature fails, we turn to art.”

— Umberto Eco

I sketch and paint a lot, but that's only for myself.

— Rohit Saraf