Artist Quotes · Page 36

I will keep painting until I die.

— Yayoi Kusama

I think art breaks down otherness.

— Dee Rees

The arts safeguard our culture.

— Adrian Lester

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

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

— Damian Loeb

My drawing of me n Jaz I cut my hair look n u see in the drawing.

— Moon

I don't have a makeup bag, I have a makeup artist!

— Erika Jayne

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

— Robert Hughes

Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

— David Altmejd

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.

— Peter London

It's nearly impossible to make a living in the arts.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

“Work your craft; until it becomes an art form.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

— Bill Murray

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

— James Broughton

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

— Ray Conniff

I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.

— Jisoo

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

— Seth Godin

The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.

— Ann Magnuson

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

— Andy Goldsworthy

There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.

— Leonardo Drew

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand…

— Marianne Moore

I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am…

— Tina Modotti

Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get…

— Joan Chen

People always try to pigeonhole you, especially the media, who are happy if they can label you as a particular kind of…

— Chris de Burgh

You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run…

— Mirah

“If artists often get famous posthumously, then there is only one thing for me to do—fake my own death. Or I could…

— Jarod Kintz

Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see…

— Julian Schnabel

Drawing is the root of everything.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I used to draw shoes as a kid.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

Art is the questioning of culture

— Gerard Mortier

Art needs to stand for something.

— Ai Weiwei

“Art is not a sack race.”

— Charles Baxter

You are the artist and the art.

— Bryant H. McGill

“Only suffering grows big artists.”

— Irving Stone

If you can't paint, paint Big.

— Audrey Flack