Artist Quotes · Page 62

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

— Maria Callas

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

— Sean Scully

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

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

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

— Maisie Peters

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

— Karina Halle

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

— Dave Matthews

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

— John F. Kennedy

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

— Tom Wesselmann

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

— Jackson Pollock

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

— Emily Carr

It's all about the art. It's not about getting on TV or not getting on TV.

— Ari Shaffir

The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with…

— Corey Stoll

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

— Carly Chaikin

...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the…

— Robert Adams

“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Nobody else was saying what he said on air, and sometimes he pushed the envelope when he said the newest Jay Z…

— Freddie Gibbs

I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value…

— Vivek Shraya

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only…

— Allan Kaprow

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning…

— Gustav Klimt

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful…

— Lee Krasner

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely…

— Gustave Courbet

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

— Josh Silver

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 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

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

— Tony Curtis

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

— Marina Abramovic

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

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

— Andy Goldsworthy

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

— Philip Guston

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

— Henry Winkler

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

— Anonymous

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

— Charlie Cochet