Artist Quotes · Page 86

Who knew that being an artist was a glamour job?

— Laurie Simmons

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

— Cee Lo Green

“Could a person choose to be or not to be an artist?”

— Tom Robbins

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

— Ad Reinhardt

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

— Robert Bresson

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

— Peggy Guggenheim

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

— John Lennon

I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.

— Lucien Smith

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

— Emma Anderson

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

— Jack Levine

Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it's worth a lot.

— Afeni Shakur

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

— Quentin Tarantino

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just…

— K. D. Lang

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

— Irving Stone

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

— Oliver $

art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe…

— Margaret Atwood

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he…

— Henri Matisse

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will…

— Henri Matisse

I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere…

— Farah Diba

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter…

— Joni Mitchell

I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I…

— Andrea Suarez Paz

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to…

— Jonathan Demme

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to…

— John Walford

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

— Anonymous

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

— Angela Robinson

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

— Kurt Cobain

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

— Lady Gaga

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

— Sandra Cisneros

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

— Damien Hirst

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

— Christian Morgenstern

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.

— Gary Holland

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

— Emile Zola

The supreme morality of art is to endure.

— Stanley Kunitz

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

— Richard Avedon

I would never dare say that I'm an artist.

— France Gall

“Art has no rules. That's what makes it art.”

— Grace-Naomi