Artist Quotes · Page 172

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

— Salvador Dali

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

— Albert Camus

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

— Roberto Bolano

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

— Andrew Marvell

The next step in sculpture is motion.

— Alexander Calder

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

— Marina Abramovic

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

— M.I.A

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not…

— Neil Gaiman

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

— Joseph Raffael

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made…

— David Dobrik

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

— Peggy Guggenheim

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.

— Carole Katchen

My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his…

— Horace Pippin

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

— Stuart Pearson Wright

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

— Ray Bradbury

I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by…

— James Rosenquist

If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth…

— Harold Rosenberg

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many…

— Anton Chekhov

Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking…

— Bob Beamon

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art…

— Upton Sinclair

“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This…

— Jerzy Kosiński

As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing… I'm quite simply following…

— Jean-Claude Ellena

Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the…

— Suzanne Gordon

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

— Elizabeth Peyton

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

— Kurt Schwitters

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

— Michael Craig-Martin

“after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art”

— john j geddes

Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

— Robert Indiana

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

— Johnny Cash

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

— David Foster Wallace

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

— Roy Ayers

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

— Howard Hodgkin

Life isnt a support system for art. Its the other way around.

— Anonymous

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.

— Martin Mull

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

— Pierce Brosnan

Paint what you see and look with your own eyes.

— Gilbert Stuart

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

— Richard Linklater

“Be more of an artist, and “load every rift” of your subject with ore.”

— John Keats