Artist Quotes · Page 22

The big art is our life.

— Mary Caroline Richards

I had had no art training.

— Dorothy Malone

Drawing is the root of everything.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I used to draw shoes as a kid.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

O, had I but followed the arts!

— William Shakespeare

Become acquainted with every art.

— Miyamoto Musashi

“Color me…BRILLIANT.”

— Jamie Weise

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

— Eva Hesse

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

— Patti Smith

“I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors.”

— Marc Chagall

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

— Keith Haring

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

— Eugene Delacroix

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

— Jeffrey Archer

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

— Jim Woodring

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

— Steve Hackett

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

— Florence Nightingale

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

— Aberjhani

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version…

— Dean Koontz

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

— Henri Matisse

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and…

— Cy Twombly

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

— Barry Diller

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists…

— Amit Trivedi

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture…

— Marshall McLuhan

“They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much…

— Lew Wallace

But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then…

— Rick Bayan

Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent.…

— Barack Obama

I'm sure I'm not the only artist to flinch remembering some of the tacky merchandise sold at gigs - flags, pillowcases -…

— Shakin' Stevens

When you get to know an artist, you find out the things that have peeved them over the years, and it's generally…

— Phil Ramone

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

— Damian Loeb

I think your life informs your art.

— Sheryl Crow

I don't enjoy art.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

The artist is justified by his art.

— Lewis Foreman Day

When art wins, everyone wins.

— Jerry Saltz

Art is basically entertainment.

— Yasumasa Morimura

I will keep painting until I die.

— Yayoi Kusama

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

— Grayson Perry