Artist Quotes · Page 35

The confident artist is a fool.

— Giorgio Armani

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey

I want to be a pan-India artist.

— Shruti Haasan

I, in the end, make art for myself.

— Anish Kapoor

I have a BFA in illustration.

— Mike Shinoda

“I chose Van Gogh.”

— Cheryl Strayed

I paint the walls with his blood.

— DMX

I paint in order not to cry.

— Paul Klee

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

— Marina Abramovic

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

— Joseph Joubert

If only art were as rare as good taste.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

— Wayne White

Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.

— Kay Kay Menon

I don't think art matters as much as keeping people safe.

— Perfume Genius

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

— Orhan Pamuk

The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a…

— Damien Hirst

It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to…

— Leonardo Drew

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with…

— Tommy Shaw

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

— Paul Klee

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

— David Foster Wallace

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

— James Ransone

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the…

— Chuck Close

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in…

— Philippe Petit

I'm the kind of person who lives my art. It's not that I want to necessarily do it: it's that I have…

— Jason Derulo

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And…

— Robert Crumb

My process of working is not really that unique. I like to paint during the day, and block out large chunks of…

— Rosson Crow

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him…

— Auguste Rodin

Generally I would say that I'm not a super-adventurous shadow girl. I'm all about a lip, eyebrow, and mascara, but through the…

— Gwen Stefani

When I'm in a session with an artist, my job is to help execute their vision - so it's whatever story they're…

— Justin Tranter

There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to…

— Don McLean

I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make…

— Bryce Wilson

We're not cameras, we're artists.

— Frank Bruno

“Art is a lie that tells the truth”

— Jean-Claude Ellena

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

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

— Grayson Perry