Artist Quotes · Page 17

I paint in order not to cry.

— Paul Klee

“Art is a lie that tells the truth”

— Jean-Claude Ellena

I can't draw right or left-handed!

— Joey Heatherton

The confident artist is a fool.

— Giorgio Armani

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey

I want to be a pan-India artist.

— Shruti Haasan

I, in the end, make art for myself.

— Anish Kapoor

I have a BFA in illustration.

— Mike Shinoda

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

— Jane Alexander

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

— Edward Abbey

“Life as an art cannot be copied; it must be created.”

— Nadia Bandura

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

— Marcel Duchamp

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

— Chris Campanioni

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

— Danny Brown

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

— Alexandra Petri

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

— Mackenzie Foy

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

— Pamela Love

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

— Iris Murdoch

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so…

— Tracey Emin

Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

— Emily Carr

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

— Jackson Pollock

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

— Tom Wesselmann

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look…

— Meghan Trainor

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For…

— Henry Rollins

Being independent is more of a mind state more than anything else. A lot of people don't understand that being an independent…

— Yo Gotti

When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a…

— James Franco

“I no longer believed that Valentino would continue to build anything at all. Instead, he would merely leave behind the empire of…

— Michael Ennis

I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles…

— Shepard Fairey

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at…

— Jackson Pollock

It feels good, it feels like a badge of honor, honestly. Amongst the artists here, in California, that festival is such a…

— Zella Day

“I chose Van Gogh.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Art is science in the flesh.

— Jean Cocteau

Art is the signature of man.

— Anonymous

All artists are two-headed calves.

— Truman Capote

This drawing is pretty I think hehe

— Brianna Ramos

All art is exploitation.

— Sherman Alexie

Paint ideas, paint thought.

— Howard Pyle

Draw what you see.

— Arne Glimcher