Artist Quotes · Page 195

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

— Jackson Pollock

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

— David Lynch

I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting.

— Marta Gottfried

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

— St. Lucia

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

— John Baldessari

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,

— Brian K. Vaughan

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

— John Olsen

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

“You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.”

— Ryan Lilly

The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

— Ben Shahn

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

— Jane Smiley

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

— Kerry James Marshall

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

— Fran Lebowitz

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

— Clara Schumann

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

— Abbi Jacobson

Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort…

— Felix Mendelssohn

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps…

— Adam Gopnik

“Wait. Like an art museum, or are we talking a history museum? I could tolerate the dinosaur bones and war relics, but…

— Victoria Michaels

All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is…

— William Butler Yeats

Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort…

— Miguel McKelvey

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you…

— Danger Mouse

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up…

— Glenn Frey

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that…

— Kurt Wagner

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

— Irving Stone

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

— Edward Abbey

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

— Jane Alexander

The arts can change you as a person.

— Michaela DePrince

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

— Alexandra Petri

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

— Danny Brown

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

— Chris Campanioni

“Life as an art cannot be copied; it must be created.”

— Nadia Bandura

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

— Marcel Duchamp

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

— Katya Zamolodchikova

I should like to be famous and unknown.

— Edgar Degas

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

— David Letterman

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

— Maureen Johnson

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

— Ken Danby

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

— Mackenzie Foy