Artist Quotes · Page 42

Art simply can’t be stopped.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Art is the god you have not seen.

— Mary Butts

If it's good art, it's good.

— Kenneth Branagh

I drew this earlier

— The_Crazy_One

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

— Mason Cooley

Every art I do is a collage.

— Santigold

The aim of art is to create space.

— Frank Stella

Kanye West is my favorite artist.

— Drake

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

— Kehinde Wiley

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

— Maggie Nelson

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

— Clara Schumann

“Every second in the air in Paris, is art.”

— Jack Freestone

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

Every canvas is a journey all its own.

— Helen Frankenthaler

I've been slagged off completely by the art world

— Tracey Emin

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

— Mark Tobey

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

— Edward Tufte

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

— Kenneth Clark

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

— Garry Trudeau

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already…

— Robert Breault

All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

— Vivek Shraya

The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such…

— Omari Hardwick

I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers…

— Diana Krall

A lot of young artists in particular think you can just do one great thing and then sit back and collect checks.…

— Nicole Georges

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an…

— Jacob Epstein

I have the best fans. I know every artist says that but I really do. I love my fans for how much…

— Jay Sean

You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the…

— Anonymous

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness…

— John Updike

George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole…

— J. J. Abrams

I paint abstract expressions.

— Billy Zane

Art is really a battle.

— Edgar Degas

The great artist is the simplifier.

— Vincent Van Gogh

So I can draw too :O :P

— Ritesh

Art can articulate new ideas.

— Haris Pasovic

More matter with less art.

— William Shakespeare

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

— Evel Knievel

The arts don't exist in isolation.

— David Byrne