Artist Quotes · Page 96

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

— Don Johnson

I am principally an artist. I became a political cartoonist.

— Robert Graysmith

“Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.”

— Hugh MacLeod

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

— Michelangelo

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

— Albert Camus

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

— Julian Schnabel

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

— Auguste Rodin

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

— Bobby Sherman

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

— Wynton Marsalis

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost…

— Jack Beal

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

— Jerry Saltz

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an…

— St. Lucia

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

— Anthony Burgess

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

— John Walford

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the…

— Seamus Heaney

Getting into the paint is easy. Seeing if the help comes is easy - they either come or they don't. The hard…

— Caris LeVert

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might…

— Walter Darby Bannard

The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it…

— Christoph Waltz

When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I…

— Kehinde Wiley

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people…

— Ben Sollee

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and…

— James Jackson Jarves

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

— Lucinda Williams

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

— Nelson Shanks

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

— Bruce Nauman

As an artist, you're used to being in the public eye.

— Kandi Burruss

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

— Banksy

“There are no Rules in Art . . .Only Creativity”

— Edna Stewart

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

— Pedro Reyes

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

— Paul Scofield

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

— Ted Naifeh

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

— Arshile Gorky

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

— Helen Hunt

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

— Georges Bizet

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

— Matthew Lawrence

“I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.”

— Vincent Price

“It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

— Yoko Ono