Artist Quotes · Page 191

I have always loved painting and I did it from a very young age.

— Brad Mondo

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

— Kehinde Wiley

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

— Carroll O'Connor

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

— Shea Hembrey

“You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

— H. G. Wells

My time, my money, my family, and my respect art not to be played with.

— Anonymous

If you want to learn how to paint, go to Caravaggio.

— Gianfranco Zola

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

— Lisa Hanawalt

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

— Anthony Burgess

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

— John Lone

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

— Francis Bacon

“All dahlias are beautiful in their own way! I love them because they have the most perfect symmetry and come in a…

— Chantal Larocque

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You…

— Cynthia Weil

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which…

— Walter Bagehot

A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol,…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“You've influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one…

— Libba Bray

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style…

— Jerry Saltz

I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd…

— Lee Krasner

“A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

— Patti Smith

“I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors.”

— Marc Chagall

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

— Shweta Tripathi

In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

— Robert Genn

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

— Eugene Delacroix

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

— Keith Haring

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I always knew I was gonna be an artist. I was very confident in that.

— Lil Peep

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

— Fred Armisen

From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.

— St. Lucia

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

— Jim Woodring

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

— Steve Hackett

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

— Jeffrey Archer

A master of art is a master of craft

— Anonymous

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

— Eugene Delacroix

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

— Alain de Botton