Artist Quotes · Page 80

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

— Anonymous

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

— Damien Hirst

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

— David Hockney

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

— Bruno Mars

“Art, and sadness, which last forever.”

— Sara Baume

People keep trying to say I'm one type of artist and I'm just not.

— Rico Nasty

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

— Anonymous

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

— Charles Horton Cooley

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do…

— Seth Godin

Couple of artists got words for me, that's never fun. They say it's on when they see me, that day don't ever…

— Drake

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

— Saul Steinberg

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what…

— Alice Neel

“Shadow is an intelligent artist; it creates its works in places where there are already great beauties!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

— Justin Bieber

As an artist your number one goal is to say something, to really say something. Whether you're right or you're wrong.

— Mark Salling

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and…

— Shepard Fairey

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and…

— Philip Guston

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost…

— Henry Moore

“Art is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and…

— Andrei

'Celebrity' is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary.…

— Justin Timberlake

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it…

— Friedrich Schiller

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their…

— Jerry Saltz

The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only…

— Joaquin Sorolla

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

— Adam Phillips

“It was funny how heartbreak turned into great art.”

— Jennifer Probst

“Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.”

— Benjamin Wood

I'm not a megaphone sort of guy. I just let my art talk for itself.

— Anh Do

“Nothing like the smell of an artist at work.”

— Barbara Shapiro

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

— Robert Motherwell

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

— Franz Grillparzer

Art is the most important way of recording history.

— Pat Steir

I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

— Peter Jackson

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

— Katherine Paterson

You can't stop an artist from expressing his views through art.

— Raftaar

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

— George Santayana

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

— Jean Cocteau

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

— Claude Monet

The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.

— Proverb