Artist Quotes · Page 207

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

— Kim Weston

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

— Marcel Duchamp

“Theorists! Stop pretending that you are not artists.”

— Alexei Shulgin

If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

— Future

I just want to make people aware of what art therapy is.

— Karen Pence

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

— Jenny Holzer

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

— Washington Allston

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

— Ben Okri

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to…

— Harry Callahan

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

— Thomas Couture

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born…

— Rajneesh

I'm an underground mix-tape artist who's had a level of commercial success.

— Chamillionaire

Sometimes I may paint myself into a corner, but you should see the exquisite details and colors. . .

— Rick Sutter

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

— Willem de Kooning

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own…

— Sonia Rykiel

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

— Rita Moreno

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living,…

— Rebecca West

I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know…

— Michael Jackson

But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into…

— E. M. Forster

I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and…

— Eve Ensler

Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of…

— J. E. H. MacDonald

Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad…

— John Newman

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

“Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness. BLOG post-Perpetual…

— Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

— Hippocrates

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

— Little Simz

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

— Honore de Balzac

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

— Albert Camus

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.

— L. S. Lowry

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

— Marc Chagall

I think miniatures are still superior to a lot of computer graphics.

— Douglas Trumbull

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

— Louise Bourgeois

“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.”

— Laurence Overmire

Truly accomplished artists are humble and unaware of their abilities.

— Shobana

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

— Joe Wright

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

— Pope Benedict XVI

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

— MO