Artist Quotes · Page 194

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

— Salvador Dali

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

— Ilya Kabakov

I'll always err on the side of art for art's sake.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I think it's good to live an artful life.

— Adam Driver

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room,

— Ralph Fasanella

Art is not painting,its the skill the way you do

— Lara Flores

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

— John French Sloan

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

— Jeff Koons

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

— Frances Stark

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

— Dick Bruna

Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

— Harold Eugene Edgerton

“To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists.”

— Nick Meglin

“Paris is pregnant with layers of history, colored with the ink of artists who dared to dream of a world only they…

— Kimberly Kinrade

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

— Rene Magritte

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

— Karl Marx

“I had this dream that my life was a rolling canvas. Everyday it rolled off the sheet, bleached white, into the beach…

— Charles Martin

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world,…

— Amelia Gray

Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for,…

— Amy Ray

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is…

— Allan Bloom

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting…

— Ali Banisadr

“God Is The Artist Of Your Landscape Will things always work out in the way you hope and want? Of course not!…

— Cheryl Zelenka

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone…

— Charlie Kaufman

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

— Conor Oberst

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

— Remy de Gourmont

“The careful observance of discipline is the mark of the artiste.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

When love is at the base of something it is a masterpiece.

— Steve Maraboli

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

— Pablo Picasso

I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

— Fiona Apple

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

— Anish Kapoor

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

— Brian McKnight

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

— Ray Davies

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

— Virginia Woolf

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

— George Eliot

Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

— Paul Robeson

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

— William Baziotes

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

— Walter Annenberg

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

— Willow Smith

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

— Edi Rama