Artist Quotes · Page 99

Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.

— Eva Hesse

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

— Conrad Hall

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

— Carla Gugino

“Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

— Albert Camus

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

— Juan Gabriel

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

— Lee Krasner

I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most…

— Laura Dern

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

— Elizabeth Janeway

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

— Josh Peck

A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

— Charles M. Schulz

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

— Salman Rushdie

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

— Winslow Homer

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.”

— Dodie Smith

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the…

— Georg Baselitz

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be…

— Tom Sturridge

“It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has…

— Franklin J. Meine

The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to…

— Joss Stone

When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the…

— Kazimir Malevich

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No…

— John Ruskin

Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different…

— Michael Kimmelman

I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They…

— Christian McBride

Every artist wants to connect with the listener.

— LP

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.

— Eric Maisel

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

— Spencer Dryden

That's the beauty of art: art is universal.

— John Kani

Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.

— Wade Guyton

“The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.”

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

— Michelangelo

Through art, you create your own world.

— Daphne Guinness

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

— Cesare Pavese

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

— Michael Ealy

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

— Drake

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

— Gustave Flaubert

I was an artist before I got into interiors.

— Gauri Khan

All my works are games, serious game.

— M. C. Escher

I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.

— Cornelia Parker