Artist Quotes · Page 61

Art's too long and life's too short.

— Grace Paley

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

— Michelangelo

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

— Frank Stella

My dad said I should draw this for him. It looks easy enough

— Anonymous

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

— Maurice Sendak

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

— Elton John

As an artist, I'm always on the hunt for clothes no one else has.

— Carly Pearce

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

— Caitlin Moran

Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists.

— Big Freedia

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

— Eric Fischl

Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so…

— Tracey Emin

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

— Iris Murdoch

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

— Pamela Love

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

— John Donne

Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You…

— Robert Montgomery

If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies…

— Oskar Schlemmer

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing…

— Paul Claudel

I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we…

— Federico Fellini

Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art,…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms…

— Cornel West

I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for…

— Black Francis

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

— Henry Miller

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Franz Kline

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

— John Kurtz

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

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

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

— Christo

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

— Laurie Simmons

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

— Kody Chamberlain

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Alistair Cross

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

— Lazaro Hernandez