Artist Quotes · Page 200

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

— Marc Chagall

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

— Alexander McQueen

A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine.

— DMX

Art is not to throw light but to be light...

— Kenneth Patchen

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

— Marlene Dumas

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

— Pablo Picasso

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

— Anne Rice

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

— Francesco Clemente

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

— Lucinda Childs

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.

— Sloane Crosley

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

— Gilbert Stuart

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

— Don Watson

Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking…

— Monica Johnson

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave…

— Sally Mann

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with…

— Pablo Picasso

“Much later on, I read a statement of Bruce Nauman's: “Art is a matter of life and death.” It sounds melodramatic, but…

— Marina Abramović

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want…

— Joanne Fluke

“The disadvantages and dangers of the author’s calling are offset by an advantage so great as to make all its difficulties, disappointments,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity of an artist,…

— Matthew Fox

It's a beautiful thing when the young guys grew up off you, or they embrace you and respect your craft. They always…

— Jadakiss

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk,…

— Joe Lando

I am a professional martial artist, and I am a professional fighter.

— Frank Shamrock

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

— Lana Del Rey

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

— Celine Dion

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

— Mark Roberts

“Art is not sin. It’s not always good. But it is not a sin.”

— Ann Patchett

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

— Walter Lippmann

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

— William Blake

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

— Mike Leigh

There are lots of artists I respect and admire.

— Lisa Stansfield

“the artist plays freely on his faculty of cognition.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

— Emile Zola

The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form

— Bruce Lee

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

— Benjamin West

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

— Hannah Arendt