Artist Quotes · Page 204

I've got a cool sketchbook that I am selling on Amazon.

— Butch Hartman

I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.

— Kadir Nelson

“What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous?”

— Nenia Campbell

“Life is an art the one cannot erase”

— Anonymous

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

— Julia Cameron

Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.

— Henri Matisse

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

— Gunter Grass

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

— Gustave Courbet

“Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city’s most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint”

— Brent Weeks

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

— Bruce Dickinson

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

— Conway Twitty

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].

— Mike W. Barr

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

— Veronica Roth

I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.

— PSY

Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie…

— Kevin Smith

It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or…

— Gerhard Richter

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton…

— Sara Bareilles

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already…

— Raf Simons

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry…

— James Freeman Clarke

My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of…

— Shahzia Sikander

“The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and…

— Oscar Wilde

Perhaps the world of art is just one vast pretence, in which we all take part since, after all, there is no…

— Roger Scruton

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

— Saul Williams

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

— Thomas Kinkade

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

— Ai Weiwei

Art can help steer important conversations in the right direction.

— Arjun Mathur

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

— Alberto Giacometti

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

— Pola Negri

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

— Willa Ford

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

— Robert Crumb

In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

— Colin MacInnes

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.

— JR

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

— Rachel Zucker

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

— Walter Darby Bannard