Artist Quotes · Page 213

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.

— Frida Kahlo

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

— Anonymous

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

— Christina Aguilera

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

— Igor Stravinsky

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

— Philip James Bailey

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

— Dennis Potter

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

— Barbara Kingsolver

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art,

— Robert Rauschenberg

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

— James Rosenquist

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

— John Lithgow

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

— Eric Rohmer

“The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

— Barry McGee

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

— Igor Stravinsky

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good…

— Damien Hirst

The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would…

— Anonymous

“It takes me living an intentional, mindful, and quiet life to hear or see what’s here. Great art doesn’t necessarily create something…

— Eric Overby

“Art is painful, Layla. It’s potentially dangerous. Explosive. It takes everything from you, sometimes more than you can afford. It’s a beast,…

— Saffron A. Kent

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had…

— Ayn Rand

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its…

— Walter Benjamin

My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a…

— Grimes

To be earning a living as an artist at any time, any place is kinda the ultimate gift that you can receive…

— Rodney Crowell

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge…

— Eugene Delacroix

I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.

— Mase

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

— Patricia Piccinini

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

— Pablo Picasso

“Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.”

— Stephanie Vaughn

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

— Jean-Paul Riopelle

“Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents.”

— Anurag Shourie

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

— Ian Mcewan

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

— Mason Cooley

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

— Ricky Gervais

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

— Halldór Laxness

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

— Graciela Iturbide

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

— Robert Henri

Art is too long, and life is too short,

— Grace Paley

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

— Arthur Koestler

Great art can only be created out of love.

— James A. Baldwin