Artist Quotes · Page 182

Only a sad man can be a good artist.

— IndraneeL

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

— Washington Allston

I'm going to die unhappy. That's how artists roll!

— Iliza Shlesinger

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

— John Ashbery

“The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.”

— Dan Brown

“In art, the present is the eternal.”

— Kakuzo Okakura

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

— Hans Hofmann

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch…

— Nick Cannon

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you…

— Kara Walker

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

— Clement Greenberg

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only…

— Roger Lewis

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

— Peter Max

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a…

— D. H. Lawrence

The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will…

— Alex Johnston

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact…

— Kate Voegele

“This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and…

— John Updike

New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does.…

— Justin Townes Earle

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife…

— Ben Shahn

Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's…

— Kehinde Wiley

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work…

— Joseph Kosuth

I'm not really biased towards any medium, you know. What's important to me...obviously, you have to do some job to help you…

— Matthew Bomer

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

— Guido Molinari

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

— Damian Loeb

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers,

— Janis Joplin

“ Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.”

— Bam Zakariya

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

— Louis C. K

The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.

— John Heilpern

“All artist of some measure contemplative.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

— William Hazlitt

Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

— Alex Grey

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

— Irving Stone

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

— Robert Henri

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

— Gunter Grass

The artist is the antenna of the race.

— Ezra Pound

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

— Mike Svob