Artist Quotes · Page 192

I want to showcase my talent, I'm not just a grime MC, I'm an artist.

— AJ Tracey

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

— Anne Sexton

Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist's autobiography.

— G-Eazy

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

— Black Francis

Life imitates art but art intimidates life.

— Dana Gould

Hey alex this is my drawing of you... sorry it looks a little weird

— Anonymous

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.

— Andy Warhol

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely…

— Yann Martel

The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

— Charles Segars

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

— Thomas Kinkade

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't…

— Jay Kay

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

— Karen Armstrong

The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.

— Albert Einstein

I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated…

— Wade Guyton

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests.…

— Walter Dean Myers

I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world…

— Adrian Tomine

An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means…

— Ayn Rand

Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We…

— George Jones

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world…

— Peter Schjeldahl

I perform in art time and in real time, and you can't tell the difference - no one knows how to separate…

— Tehching Hsieh

The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red…

— Eric Maisel

Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

“Eternity is an artist; time is its masterpiece.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

— N. C. Wyeth

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

— Kinky Friedman

I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.

— Mac Miller

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

— Jason Mraz

My art was not an answer - it was a question.

— Gottfried Helnwein

I'm not really trying to make 'great art.'

— Michael Cera

“Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.”

— Marsilio Ficino

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

— Billy Childish

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

— Al Hirschfeld

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

— Anonymous

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

— Giorgio Vasari

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

— Ellen Key

I used to think of exhibitions as being practice but they are not.

— Jimmy White

Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

— Robert Mapplethorpe