Artist Quotes · Page 54

The arts help complete a person. I truly believe that.

— Henry Winkler

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

— Philip Guston

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

— Anonymous

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

— Ayn Rand

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

— David Rockefeller

Creating artistically, time has no sympathy, so why wait?

— Raghib Clitso

I just call myself an artist, really.

— Tierra Whack

Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

— Marge Piercy

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

— Teller

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

— Charles R. Jackson

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

— Seth Godin

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

— Andrew Hoberek

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists,…

— Len Wein

I like to see the world from different levels. Even when I'm making a candle or designing a piece, I like to…

— Twinkle Khanna

I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists,…

— Garth Brooks

I've always been inspired by female performers and artists who really surround who they are around their voice. For me, it's always…

— Lea Michele

If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s…

— Marilyn Manson

Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Um, well, I'm sure to the untrained eye, this drawing may seem like one of mine. But if you look closer, you'll…

— Bubbles

“You are divine, you are perfect, but as an artist, you create your own story and you have the illusion that the…

— Miguel Ruiz

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries…

— Paul Cezanne

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

— Urvashi Rautela

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

— Willie Nelson

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

— Ben Eine

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

— Alan Palomo

I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.

— Robert Barnes

As a pop artist by definition, you have to learn to adapt.

— Pedro Capo

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

— Elizabeth Bowen

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

— Auguste Rodin

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

— John Updike

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

— Michael Steinhardt

You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.

— Kehinde Wiley

“...there is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it." 390”

— Hilary Mantel

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

— Robert Merrill

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

— Maurice Sendak

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

— Joseph Addison

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

— Orson Welles