Artist Quotes · Page 203

Greatness in art is always a by-product.

— Harold Rosenberg

For me there is no difference between art and life.

— Robert Rauschenberg

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

— Hannu Rajaniemi

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

— Kevin Rowland

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,

— Leonard Baskin

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

— Larry Norman

The most important thing in art is taste.

— Sean Lennon

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

— Tony Kushner

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

— John Piper

I cant even find the perfect brush so I can paint whats qoinq thru myi mind

— Drake -Brand New

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

— Pierre Soulages

I want to be the Tory Burch of India - never once moving from my aesthetic, but offering a story and putting…

— Masaba Gupta

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

— William Cowper

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

— Sholom Aleichem

Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from…

— John Huston

If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous…

— Coco Rocha

In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone…

— Kina Grannis

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your…

— Zhang Xiaogang

No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums…

— Marc Chagall

“Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is…

— Eugene Carriere

I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art…

— Jan Brett

I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also,…

— Tinsel Korey

Drawing is your understanding of form.

— Edgar Degas

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

— Giotto di Bondone

Every work of art is about everything.

— Eli Siegel

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden

I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

— Louise DeSalvo

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

— James Huneker

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

— Giorgio Vasari

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

— Julian Eltinge

I've tried, in periods of unemployment, to pick up a paintbrush.

— Paul Kaye

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

— Mark Twain

“I have a habit of painting reality with my dreams.”

— Lionel Suggs

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

— Yann Martel

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

— Hans Hofmann

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

— Louise Bourgeois

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat