Artist Quotes · Page 58

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

— Ana Castillo

As an artist you have to keep reinventing yourself.

— David Hammons

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

— Robert Delaunay

They're not dogs [poodles], they're art.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

— Kenneth Noland

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

— Ken Danby

I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and…

— Akiane Kramarik

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

— Mark Mills

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

— Glenn Ligon

Growing up, watching pop music icons, I never saw a solo artist whose main instrument was drums.

— G Flip

I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

— Mark Foster

Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so…

— Shayna Baszler

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

— Kreesha Turner

Every time I traveled out of the country or did different things or did a new record with an artist I loved,…

— Trina

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as…

— Janet Echelman

The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do…

— Michael Moriarty

If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period,…

— Anonymous

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of…

— James Elkins

“Even the most talented artists have flaws and limitations that no amount of training can overcome, just as even the most exceptional…

— Matt Fitzgerald

We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you…

— Thomas Rhett

I draw in my sleep (dream of drawing) a lot. I don't think I have ever drawn anything in real life while…

— Jason Polan

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I…

— William S. Burroughs

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

— Edouard Manet

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

— Mackenzie Crook

I want painting to be difficult to do.

— Richard Diebenkorn

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

— Jack Levine

“Art isn’t about where it ends up. It’s about the creation.”

— Lauren Dane

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

— Gao Xingjian

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

— John Kurtz

I am not the perfect piece for your perfect art.

— Joantonette Morano

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

— Eran Creevy

“Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them.”

— Atticus Poetry

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

— Rachel Dratch

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

— Jean-Michel Jarre

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

— Kurt Eisner

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

— Caryl Churchill