Artist Quotes · Page 93

“Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.”

— Truth Devour

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist

— Michael Bolton

Color will play no part in the art of future.

— Gunter Brus

The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.

— Anonymous

It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.

— Kirk Franklin

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

— Mya

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

— Edouard Manet

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

— Ice T

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

— Ken Danby

“Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice. It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called…

— Ellen J. Barrier

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

— Edgar Degas

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

— John F. Kennedy

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I…

— John Lithgow

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe

I guess with the generation we live in, we just want to be entertained at the end of the day. A lot…

— Tyga

That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to…

— Elizabeth Peyton

Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do…

— Seth Godin

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be yourself and do what you actually like doing as an artist. Don't try to think too much about where am I…

— Muneshine

I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art…

— Toni Morrison

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill…

— Antoni Tapies

When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking…

— Warren MacKenzie

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

— Rithy Panh

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

— Ruth Asawa

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

— Abbie Cornish

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

— George Bellows

I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

— William Kentridge

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

— Jack Prelutsky

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

— Okakura Kakuzo

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

— Nietzsche

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

— Marcel Duchamp

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.”

— Alain de Botton

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

— Martha Rosler