Artist Quotes · Page 7

Art is really a battle.

— Edgar Degas

The great artist is the simplifier.

— Vincent Van Gogh

So I can draw too :O :P

— Ritesh

More matter with less art.

— William Shakespeare

Art can articulate new ideas.

— Haris Pasovic

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

— Evel Knievel

I'm growing as an artist.

— YG

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

— Anonymous

“Sometimes life is stranger than art.”

— H.P. Mallory

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

— Rithy Panh

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

— Chuck Close

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

— Adrienne Rich

“With a starry brush, paint the dusk Venetian blue”

— Owl City

All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon

— Diane Duane

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

— Jack Kerouac

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

— William Blake

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm…

— Grace Slick

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

— Tim Burton

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."

— Questlove

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

— Anonymous

My paintbrush is my razor, my body is my canvas. so many pictures cover my body. with each picture I paint, the…

— Lauren

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.

— Michael Dirda

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

— Eli Broad

I think some of the most beneficial things being an artist has brought to me in film is just you're not afraid…

— Common

If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend.…

— Lauren Jauregui

When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself.…

— Jennifer Lopez

I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork.…

— St. Lucia

I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which…

— Robert Barry

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and…

— Albert Camus

“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come…

— Douglas Coupland

When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and…

— Joe Bradley

Your life is your art.

— Keri Smith

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

— Rico Nasty

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

— Louise Bourgeois

I made one untitled piece.

— Damien Hirst

My drawing of an emo guys face

— Crystal

Life too near paralyses art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art is not eternal.”

— Tom Wolfe

For art to be art it has to cure.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky