Artist Quotes · Page 91

“none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“As an artist, motive means opportunity”

— Siren Waroe

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

— Robert Ryman

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

— Andy Warhol

The true artist can only labor con amore.

— Victor Hugo

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

— Bill Viola

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

— Asger Jorn

In art one idea is as good as another.

— Willem de Kooning

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

— Voltaire

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

— Henri Matisse

I believe that, in our industry, overexposure tends to create problems for artists, so fortunately, I have been exposed but not overexposed.

— Nora Fatehi

When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created…

— Zaytoven

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

— Michael Heizer

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

— Larry Gagosian

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with…

— John Kurtz

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to…

— Daniel Levitin

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul…

— Isadora Duncan

Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a…

— David Mumford

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can…

— Jill Scott

Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is…

— Jean Dubuffet

I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to…

— Thornton Willis

“In those paintings, angels clustered around the living and the dead who sit peaceably on thrones, making signs with their hands. Just…

— M.T. Anderson

I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.

— Jerry Pinkney

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

— Bill Griffith

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

— Arne Jacobsen

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

— Chuck Close

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

— J. M. W. Turner

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

— Tavi Gevinson

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

— Chali 2na

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.

— Lux Interior

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

— Andrew Wyeth

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

Art transcends politics this weekend.

— Barbra Streisand

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

— Michael Keaton

The artist should always be the student.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

— Bono

You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.

— Heidi Baker