Artist Quotes · Page 63

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

— Zhang Xiaogang

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

— Yayoi Kusama

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

— Jacob Epstein

“The art is in the idea, not the object.”

— Anonymous

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

— Bob Ross

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

— Ross Lynch

Everyday's a good day when you paint

— Bob Ross

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

— Aubrey Beardsley

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that."…

— Paul Feig

We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.

— Billy Eichner

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

— Grandma Moses

“A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Im gunna draw a picture a picture with a twist ill draw it with a raser blade ill draw it on my…

— Kyna

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I just felt very isolated in France, a very bureaucratic place, no space for thinking in a different way, an artist's way.

— Dominique Crenn

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every…

— Cynthia Rylant

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm…

— Anthony Browne

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist…

— Justin Chon

One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that…

— Moby

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and…

— Bruce Lee

“There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his…

— Henry David Thoreau

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through,…

— Brian Austin Green

It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural…

— Ansel Adams

“She wants to paint the living room yellow. I have not the words.”

— Mil Millington

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

— Devendra Banhart

You just can't control your art in the future.

— Damian Loeb

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

— Edgar Degas

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

— Al Yankovic

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

— Titian

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

— Iris Murdoch

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

— Ai Weiwei

All art worthy of the name is religious.

— Henri Matisse

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

— Julia Cameron

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

— Patti Smith

I always hope that the artwork will complement and enrich a story.

— Robert Paul Weston

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

— Etgar Keret

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

— Anonymous

“The worst thing an artist can have is too much freedom.”

— Magdalena McGuire