Artist Quotes · Page 305

I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

— Lady Gaga

Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable.

— Paul Keating

“...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.”

— Samuel Lipman

What am I afraid of as an artist? I guess I was scared before of just not being heard. But I'm too…

— Sabrina Claudio

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of…

— Winston Churchill

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

— Ellsworth Kelly

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

— William Hazlitt

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing…

— Walter Crane

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist.…

— Marilyn Manson

An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and…

— Philip Taaffe

You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist…

— Kali Uchis

“Eyes have not seen nor ears heard, neither hath it entered into the hearts of men, the things which God hath prepared…

— Neville Goddard

I think that I'm going to be including a lot of anonymous female artists in what I look at and incorporate. Most…

— Laura Owens

When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I…

— Larry Gagosian

I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even…

— Kazimir Malevich

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

— Daniel Dennett

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

— Duane Michals

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms…

— Robertson Davies

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

— Oscar Isaac

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have…

— Teena Marie

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute.

— Robert Lepage

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or…

— George Bernard Shaw

“They say all art—whether books, music, or visual—is a reaction to other art.”

— Blake Crouch

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

— Pablo Picasso

As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist.

— Paul Gilbert

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never…

— Matt Bomer

There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.

— Angelina Jolie

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same…

— Frank Oz

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

— E. M. Forster

“We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

— Rumaan Alam

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

— Tom Six

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

— Alun Hoddinott

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

— Jacob Epstein

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

— Jeff Koons

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

— Charlie Haden