Artist Quotes · Page 199

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

— Georges Braque

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

— Robert Rauschenberg

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

— Izaak Walton

True art consists in concealing art.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.

— Kenny Florian

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

— Isabel Bishop

“It's only artists who know how to use their eyes”

— Grant Albert Camus

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

— Jerry Saltz

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

— Amy Harmon

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as…

— Mika

I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.

— Verite

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I…

— Ben Sollee

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

— Mayim Bialik

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

— Susan Sontag

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

— David Bowie

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which…

— Winston Churchill

People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and…

— Pierre Alechinsky

I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist,…

— Thomas Rhett

I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it.…

— Buzz Osborne

“But get this: you're free. Freedom is the greatest gift to the artist. Don't waste it. Go to Buenos Aires. Eat some…

— Kapka Kassabova

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak…

— Mike Svob

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair…

— Eric Maisel

I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends…

— Aaron Brookner

Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.

— Camille Pissarro

My dream is to save them from nature.

— Christian Dior

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

— Kim Weston

The art world doesn't exist in a vacuum.

— Hannah Gadsby

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

— Lester Bangs

The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.

— Frances Bean Cobain

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

— Martin Mull

Now is the canvas on which all masterpieces are made.

— Devin Waugh

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...

— Willem de Kooning

“Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.”

— ELLE NICOLAI

“What is "technique" but the absence of passion?”

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

— Dawn Angelique

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

— Theodor Adorno

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

— Joaquin Sorolla

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

— Paul Monette