Artist Quotes · Page 4

Art is activism.

— Angie Thomas

Art is difficult.

— Scott Thompson

“You go Picasso!”

— Sarah Weeks

I love the arts.

— Columba Bush

I drew a A

— Akila Sultana

Make good art.

— Neil Gaiman

I was artsy.

— KiKi Layne

Art is life

— Anonymous

Normal people do not create art.

— Irving Stone

Art: to nudge truth along a little.

— Jules Renard

“All great art is abstract.”

— Jean Renoir

“great is the art”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being an artist is a job for life.

— Brian Eno

Every artiste has a process.

— Angad Bedi

Science disembodies; art embodies.

— John Fowles

Art is the highest form of hope.

— Gerhard Richter

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

— George Sand

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

— Henry James

Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.

— Henri Matisse

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

— Pablo Casals

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

— Eric Hoffer

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

— Lusia Strus

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

— Edgar Degas

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

— Lewis Mumford

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

— Holly Near

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

— Marco Pierre White

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

— Carl Andre

I love my artwork, I love it on my wrist. I love having a personality, with a terrifying twist. -drucilla baron (me)

— Anonymous

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas,…

— Ike Turner

“It is a knowledge of the intrinsic significance of every existent. For the artist as for the mescalin taker draperies are living…

— Aldous Huxley

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most…

— Martin Filler

One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, 'I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm…

— Maynard James Keenan

I mean because I probably could be a makeup artist in my own life if I really wanted to do it. At…

— Phaedra Parks

So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times…

— Danny Denzongpa

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the…

— Pablo Picasso

One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within…

— Edmond de Goncourt