Artist Quotes · Page 53

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

— Lazaro Hernandez

I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.

— Maria Callas

“What is art, if not the mind materialized?”

— Alistair Cross

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

— Edward Ruscha

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

— Mark Rothko

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

— Nick Cave

Well, for one I really feel that we should protect Black art.

— Rich Homie Quan

In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your…

— Neil Gaiman

“You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

— Sebastiao Salgado

My favorite art, or whatever you want to call it, is art that makes you feel personally addressed.

— Matty Healy

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

— Ezra Pound

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

— Andre Breton

If anyone ever asks who I be, tell 'em a painter with a felt pen who drew Ali.

— Jay Electronica

“A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to…

— Anonymous

There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't…

— Marina Abramovic

“Compact trash into a cube. Then slice it into thin layers and BOOM—you’ve got pieces of modern art. Each sliver belongs in…

— Jarod Kintz

I felt like I was a bit more respected when I started to paint. It was like revealing my diary, but in…

— Heart Evangelista

This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put…

— Kehinde Wiley

Part of the artist's journey is fulfilling your own personal desires and everybody has different ideas about things they'd like to accomplish…

— Kim Wayans

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the…

— Joseph Plaskett

Each person may see a fight in different ways... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in…

— Roger Gracie

I've grown as an artist, as a person, as a songwriter.

— Maisie Peters

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

— Pablo Picasso

The social aspect of being an artist has always made me uncomfortable.

— Charles Ray

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

— Josh Silver

“He was like a living, breathing painting on an all-male canvas.”

— Karina Halle

I love painting and have a need to do it.

— Emma Watson

It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it.

— Dawn Richard

“I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.”

— Robert Dowling

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

— Marina Abramovic

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

— Tony Curtis

I tried to teach myself to draw anime, but I was so bad.

— Takashi Murakami

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

— Josef Albers

“Only in art was cheerful condemned.”

— Nicki Salcedo

“I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or you could suck it.”

— Charlie Cochet

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

— Zhang Xiaogang

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

— Andy Goldsworthy