Artist Quotes · Page 201

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

— Toni Onley

The art of love is best known by a free thinker.

— Simon Quperlier

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.”

— Susan Sontag

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

— Paul Reubens

“STUDY IN SCARLET (ILLUSTRATED COLLECTOR’S”

— Rex Stout

I am an artist and a political being as well.

— Robin Morgan

You could say science also is an art.

— Freeman Dyson

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

— Banksy

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

— Catherine Camus

I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim…

— Tim Crouch

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it…

— Josh Smith

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

— Mary Doria Russell

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the…

— Thornton Wilder

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a…

— Hans Hofmann

I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect…

— Lena Waithe

“Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time…

— Esther Verhoef

I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's…

— Joss Whedon

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life,…

— John D. Rockefeller III

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist.…

— Charles de Lint

There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's…

— Billy Corgan

“My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain…

— Oscar Wilde

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser…

— K'naan

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot…

— Joseph Joubert

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

— Mos Def

I really am in love with the idea of an artistic signature.

— Porter Robinson

“If you don’t learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!!!”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

— Poul Henningsen

Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm an artist.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

— Margaret Atwood

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

— Friedrich Schiller

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

— Charles Simic

We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

— Eileen Gray

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.

— Charlotte Caffey

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

— Peter Doig

I've been painting since I was a kid.

— Dan Amboyer