Artist Quotes · Page 45

I paint my own reality.

— Frida Kahlo

What is art? Nature concentrated.

— Honore de Balzac

Art can contradict Science.

— Austin Osman Spare

Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.

— Will Gompertz

There is no progress in art.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

Repetition is the death of art.

— Robin Green

The art is long, life is short

— Hippocrates

“it is myself I paint. My”

— Michel de Montaigne

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

— Eric Maisel

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

— Lucian Freud

All any artist can do is please themselves.

— William Shatner

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.

— Keith Sweat

“Criticise privately but compliment publicly.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

— Edward Hopper

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

— H. E. Bates

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

— Marc Chagall

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

— Leo Tolstoy

“For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.”

— Christophe Lautrette

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I…

— Jaron Lanier

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person,…

— Chuck D

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and…

— Raekwon

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

— Kerry Washington

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

— Auguste Rodin

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

— Joe Lycett

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying…

— Zadie Smith

Like everybody, I wanted to meet Andy Warhol. I was impressed by his work and how daring he was. I think he…

— Agnes Varda

“I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as…

— Thomas Hardy

In big museums, the role of the curator has shrunk in recent years as different branches of curatorial work - such as…

— Lucy Worsley

I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he…

— Rob Gronkowski

Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love…

— Dan Fante

Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in…

— Liz Garbus

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well…

— Mark Rothko

“I can paint that fucking cave.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I really like 'Disaster Artist.'

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Art is alive because it is mortal.

— Paul Virilio

“Art is revolt against fate.”

— Andre Malaux

I have been drawing all my life.

— Dick Bruna

The end of art is peace.

— Seamus Heaney

Sex and art are the same thing.

— Pablo Picasso

You don't make art, you find it

— Anonymous