Artist Quotes · Page 76

“great art can come from anywhere but not from anyone”

— abe

The artist must say it without saying it.

— Duke Ellington

“You don’t draw, and I don’t breathe. Not so much like last year”

— Cassandra Clare

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

— William McKinley

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it...

— Andre Breton

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

— Luis Barragan

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

— Howard Finster

My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.

— Hayley Kiyoko

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use…

— Raheem DeVaughn

There's this amazing dialogue between me and my fans. There's an interest in the sharing of intellectual ideas based around art.

— Matty Healy

“An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.”

— Darrell Case

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

— Jason Aldean

“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”

— Oliver Gaspirtz

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

— Anton Chekhov

“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's…

— Banksy

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.…

— Edmond de Goncourt

The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who…

— Berkeley Breathed

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you…

— Gus Van Sant

The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.…

— Joe Bradley

Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only…

— Irving Stone

I'm pushing myself in other, slower directions. Some of the stuff that I'm writing is not necessarily so speedy; it's a different…

— Christopher Paul Stelling

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her,…

— Guy de Maupassant

Any questions?" "Ya why do your drawings suck so bad?

— Tite Kubo

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

— Albert Camus

“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art”

— Lawrence Durrell

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

— Mia Kirshner

The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

— Adrian Dunbar

The job of art is to turn time into things.

— Robert Genn

Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.

— Alan Menken

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

— Harland Miller

“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.”

— The Book of the Samurai

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is nothing but humanized science.

— Gino Severini

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

— Nat King Cole

A group or an artist shouldnt get his money until his boss gets his.

— Anonymous

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

— Maria Montessori

The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.

— Susanna Fogel

Art is anything people do with distinction.

— Louis Dudek