Artist Quotes · Page 173

My goal is to change the art industry.

— Bibi Bourelly

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

— Shane Koyczan

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

— Varun Grover

I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.

— Carey Mulligan

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

— Noah Cyrus

“Truth is nothing but a lie manipulated into art.”

— Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

The artists ultimately respond to the public.

— Kehinde Wiley

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

— Laurie Anderson

I'm a mixed martial artist, if you think I'm going to take you down, I'm going to knock your out.

— Marlon Moraes

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too…

— Peter Blegvad

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

— Rhys Ifans

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?…

— Robert Adams

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

— Pablo Picasso

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

— Bernard Iddings Bell

Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state…

— Grayson Perry

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the…

— Frank Herbert

When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of…

— Kazimir Malevich

I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free…

— Banksy

I'm not going to force your participation in a conversation, I'm going to say I can be an example that these things…

— Julien Baker

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and…

— Molly Haskell

Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at…

— Melissa Marr

Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation.…

— Sylvester Stallone

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

— Steve Stoute

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

— Rose Bird

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

— Richard Wright

If you just stay still and don't create, you die as an artist.

— Sergei Polunin

“It looks like a Jackson Pollack painting here.”

— Nat Kozinn

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

— Ken Danby

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

— Mira Nair

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

— Edward Hopper

You look like something I'd draw with my left hand.

— Anonymous

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

— Anonymous

“Knowing the rules of an art is not the same as having the habit.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

I want everyone to know that no R&B artist can touch my skill.

— Sisqo

Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

— Jean Tinguely