Artist Quotes · Page 52

“Most artists can't draw.”

— Roy Simmons

I just love drawing :) :)

— Amber Hope

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

— Anonymous

“The worst thing an artist can have is too much freedom.”

— Magdalena McGuire

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

— Denis Diderot

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

— Julia Cameron

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

— George Saunders

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Challenging is a master arts of arts

— Anonymous

I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new…

— Jay IDK

I'm just trying to get better as an artist and as a human being. I feel like that's mad important.

— Cordae

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

— St. Lucia

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

I want to go on tour with the most exciting artists, and I want to make sure that I have songs with…

— Drake

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

— Margaret Fuller

“People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.”

— Leila Sales

Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and…

— Steven Morrissey

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment,…

— Ted Gioia

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But…

— Woody Allen

“Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes…

— Jean-Henri Fabre

In America, I worked for an artist who drew people in clothes, mainly for Bloomingdale's. I did it part-time when I wasn't…

— Jean Marsh

There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad…

— Ricky Gervais

“Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a…

— Cassandra Clare

Being an artist is celebrating life.

— Henry Moore

The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.

— Marilyn Ferguson

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

— John Kurtz

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

— Franz Kline

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

— Peter Frampton

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett

Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

— MaryAnn F. Kohl

God and other artists are always a little obscure…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

— Jean Paul

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

— Robert Longo

I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.

— Laurie Simmons

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

— Christo

“~Paint a pretty picture, it takes one to make it real...”

— Anonymous

The most important thing an artist can discover is a love of process.

— Kody Chamberlain