Artist Quotes · Page 77

I don't life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

— Aldyna Threesya

How do we fight back? By creating art.

— Terence McKenna

You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.

— Lynda Resnick

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

— David Hockney

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

— Jacob Bronowski

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

— Karl Kraus

Believe in the importance of your art.

— Theodora Goss

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.

— Elijah Wood

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as…

— LeRoy Neiman

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist…

— Jacob Epstein

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

— Paul Robeson

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

— Robert Ingpen

I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

— Jessica Lange

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject,rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait.

— Ceejay

There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.

— Tim Dorsey

I'm trying to be present in my daughters life as much as I can. I didn't have any kids or really any…

— Butch Vig

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn…

— Charles de Lint

Here's the thing, trust changes everything. Once you know what an artist can do, and you know their commitment level, it opens…

— Gail Simone

An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I…

— Lady Gaga

I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with…

— Brenda Laurel

I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to…

— Iggy Azalea

“In addition there is the fact that this girl's application in drawing seashells denotes in her a search for formal perfection which…

— Italo Calvino

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

— Ben Shahn

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

“But," he whispered, "it was so artistically done.”

— Grand Admiral Thrawn

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

— Romare Bearden

“No art has ever really changed anything.”

— Ali Smith

“Being cryptic is an art unto itself.”

— Shannon Alder

As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

— Vince Vaughn

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...

— Claude Monet

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

— Guy Davenport

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

— Lars von Trier

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

— Macklemore

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

— Beatrice Lillie

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

— Peter Zumthor

Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.

— Claude Picasso

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

— Winslow Homer