Artist Quotes · Page 84

I don't feel deprived in not completing my artistic endeavors.

— Alice Coltrane

Painting is an investigation of being.

— Squeak Carnwath

You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.

— Sandra Bernhard

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

— William Goldman

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

— Eleanora Duse

Every artist needs the appreciation he deserves.

— Amaal Mallik

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

— Anonymous

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

— Paul Cezanne

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

— Aaron Sorkin

“Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.”

— Amit Kalantri

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

— Shawn Crahan

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

— Sally Rooney

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small,…

— Carl Sagan

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

— Robert Irwin

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

— Ellen Forney

When I was 10 or 11, I started to sketch, and my drawings happened to be like fashion drawings... I'm lucky to…

— Marco Zanini

If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a…

— Jason Mraz

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a…

— Walter Gropius

I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the…

— Nancy Spero

“In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell…

— Michael Poeltl

“No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are…

— Anonymous

I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what…

— Sam Hunt

The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of…

— William James

Art feeds off art...and artists feed off artists.

— Robert Mangold

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

— William Hurt

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

— Josh O'Connor

“Shut the F--- up and create your f---ing art.”

— Garrett Robinson

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

— Randall Jarrell

A lot of the art that I've bought is from friends.

— Evan Mock

“The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul”

— Marina G. Roussou

I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

— Quentin Blake

Im not big on make up. I only have a make up artist for events.

— Madison Beer

The human body is the best work of art

— Anonymous

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

— Placido Domingo

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

— Eric Maisel

Art has no end but its own perfection.

— Plato