Artist Quotes · Page 185

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

— Pablo Picasso

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

— Anonymous

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

— Christina Aguilera

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

— Dennis Potter

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

— Philip James Bailey

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

— Igor Stravinsky

I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.

— Mase

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

— Patricia Piccinini

I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.

— Lauren Jauregui

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

— Michel de Montaigne

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

— Roberta Smith

“Breton considered suicide the truest art, though life seemed hardly worth the trouble to discard.”

— Dana Gioia

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

— Charles Baudelaire

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art…

— Jack Kirby

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in…

— Sean Penn

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you…

— James Mercer

The biggest possible thing that we're trying to do is change the conversation about what it means to be a working artist…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul…

— Isadora Duncan

Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a…

— David Mumford

Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether…

— Judy Chicago

When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've…

— John Dyer Baizley

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is…

— Lucian Freud

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.

— Frida Kahlo

All art is concerned with coming into being.

— Aristotle

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

— Boris Pasternak

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

— Marc Jacobs

“Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

— Anonymous

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

— Joe Mantello

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

— Arthur Koestler

Great art can only be created out of love.

— James A. Baldwin

“A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp”

— Alice Goldfarb Marquis

I do portraits - my dad's an artist.

— Fearne Cotton

I am an artsy girl. It's no secret that I am artsy, you know.

— Kreayshawn

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

— Paul Klee

“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”

— Terry Gilliam