Artist Quotes · Page 79

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

— Max Elliott Slade

I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

— Janet Fitch

All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

— George Orwell

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

— Charles Baudelaire

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

— Fairfield Porter

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

— Luis Gonzalez

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

— Margot Fonteyn

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

— Walter Darby Bannard

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

— Charles Fleischer

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

— Alfred Kinsey

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people…

— Keith Haring

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

— Wanda Koop

Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and…

— Thomas Roma

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.”

— Charles Baudelaire

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“In these days, when there is a tendency to specialize so closely, it is well for us to be reminded that the…

— Jimmy Soni

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that…

— Grant Heslov

Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents…

— Joan Miro

The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that…

— St. Lucia

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

— D.T. Suzuki

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that…

— Sylvester Stallone

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I never wanted to police Blackness or police art.

— Cord Jefferson

You wanted me to draw crow, so I drew crow

— Anonymous

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

— Oscar Wilde

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

— Claes Oldenburg

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

— Carroll O'Connor

Being an artist is not a choice; it is an obsession. . .

— Rick Sutter

Where there is money there is no art.

— William Blake

The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.

— Michael Ventura

“Every time art receives life the artist dies a little bit”

— A. Mani

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

— Anonymous

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

— Oscar Wilde

“Art is here taken to mean knowledge realized in action.”

— René Daumal

When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

— Keith Haring

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

— Michael Moore

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

— Alan King