Artist Quotes · Page 181

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

— Kali Uchis

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

— Jeanette Winterson

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

— Johan Renck

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

— Buffalo Bill

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

— Kyle Dunnigan

“Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”

— Anonymous

Ah, I see. Well that's not too tikcry at all!

— Darold

“It was a three-dimensional nightmare version of some of his own drawings.”

— Katherine Paterson

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

— Ernst Haas

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half…

— Bob Colacello

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of…

— Robert Ripley

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

— Maya Lin

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a…

— Edward Burns

“People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk…

— Christopher Bram

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

— Julia Cameron

“we’re made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared…

— Robert Browning

I always want to encourage young artists. As the budgets get smaller, that might provide an opening for younger artists and more…

— Peter Marino

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,…

— Oscar Wilde

I had my first exhibition in September, 2012. This was when I first introduced the public to my style of the incorporation…

— St. Lucia

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and…

— Rex Smith

“My colleague deciphered some bits of the writing on the wolf-totem jar. He found a smattering of words and phrases that spoke…

— James Rollins

If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work…

— Christopher Bollen

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with…

— Steven Soderbergh

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

— Bret Michaels

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

“Art is what appeals to the a priori.”

— Raheel Farooq

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

— Kiki Smith

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

— Lorrie Moore

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

— Mark Foster

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.

— Isa Genzken

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

— Invader

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

— Brett Eldredge

Art and politics have many things in common.

— Tania Bruguera

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

— William Shakespeare

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

— Eugene Ionesco

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

— Seth Godin

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

— Andre Derain