Artist Quotes · Page 178

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

— Eugene Delacroix

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

— Jeff VanderMeer

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I don't like drawing characters facing right.

— Stephan Pastis

“Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself?”

— Patti Smith

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

— John Baldessari

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

— George Edward Moore

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

— Barnett Newman

It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you…

— Tom T. Hall

“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.”

— Lisa Cron

The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.

— Willa Cather

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward…

— Eric Kandel

I want to be more than just an artist and be a people's person and do a lot of stuff for people.

— Stefflon Don

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

— Lawrence Weiner

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

— Vanna Bonta

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill…

— Antoni Tapies

When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking…

— Warren MacKenzie

I guess with the generation we live in, we just want to be entertained at the end of the day. A lot…

— Tyga

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a…

— Margaret Cho

I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do…

— Seth Godin

That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to…

— Elizabeth Peyton

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

— Nick Lowe

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

— Genesis P-Orridge

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Life is a canvas to her, and she’s painting it every day.”

— Shireen Ayache

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

— Kiyoshi Nakamura

“An actual artist, living right under her nose.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

I used to think I was going to be a painter.

— Sexyy Red

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

— Robin G. Collingwood

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

— Steve Guttenberg

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

— David Hockney

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

— Anonymous

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

— Douglas Adams

That's just me as an artist. I say what needs to be said.

— Amine

“What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?”

— Gregory Maguire

The job of the artist is to point at things.

— Miranda July

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

— Ad Reinhardt