Artist Quotes · Page 81

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

— Lee Hammond

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

— Rebecca West

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

— Claude Debussy

“Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else.”

— Marc Chagall

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

— Paul Cezanne

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.

— Dave Grohl

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it…

— Pablo Picasso

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

— Nick Cave

My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the…

— Future

You learn from doing and you learn from experiencing what it feels like to be present and lost in the moment with…

— Lucas Hedges

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position…

— Kelis

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.”

— Oscar Wilde

For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never…

— Francois Mitterrand

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his…

— Criss Jami

I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten…

— Kanye West

To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human…

— Frederick Franck

The argument that most lawmakers make about graffiti is that it's illegal because it's an eyesore, but you could easily argue that…

— Shepard Fairey

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval…

— Edward Ruscha

Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries…

— Ansel Adams

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

— Michelangelo

Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

— Marco Rubio

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

— Shirin Neshat

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

— Virginia Woolf

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

— Geoffrey Holder

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

— Joe Bradley

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

— Jules Olitski

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

— Charles Bukowski

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

— Edouard Vuillard

No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.

— Samuel Beckett

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

— Kathleen Hanna

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

— Piet Mondrian

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

— Andre Maurois

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

— Seth Godin

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

— Octave Feuillet

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

— Stanley Spencer