Artist Quotes · Page 209

DID' has given me all the confidence that a new artist needs.

— Shakti Mohan

A mistake in art is not a mistake it is an opportunity.

— Jkjkjkjk

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

— Robbie Robertson

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

— James Lafferty

The thicker you paint, the more it flows.

— John Singer Sargent

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

— Leonard Nimoy

If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

— Peter Max

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

— Frida Kahlo

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite…

— Eugene Souleiman

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you…

— Clementine Hunter

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

— Danger Mouse

Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I should be treated differently.

— Melanie Martinez

This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into…

— Ai Weiwei

Life is like art done in chalk, beautiful but temporary, enjoy it while possible.

— The Forgotten

“In art, music, and writing, if it's not of the heart, it means nothing.”

— Terry a O'Neal

I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.

— Pharrell Williams

The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist…

— Laura Owens

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the…

— Peter Max

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling…

— Maurice Saatchi

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records…

— Charles Sheeler

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are…

— Flannery O'Connor

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music,…

— Chico Hamilton

The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way,…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

“What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers…

— Wes Jackson

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

— Li Shan

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

— Eric Gill

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

— Joni Mitchell

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

— Mark Twain

“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.”

— Craig Damrauer

An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.

— Sheila Heti

Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.

— Kenneth G. Mills

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

— Naum Gabo

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

— Alexander Stoddart

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

— Natalia Makarova

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

— Grandma Moses

“Monet was a radical before he was a calendar.”

— Anne Jamison

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

— Carol P. Christ

Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.

— Paul Virilio