Artist Quotes by Jarod Kintz

“I make art like I make love—slowly, so I get the most for my money.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.”

— Jarod Kintz

“How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Batman’s cape would make a great canvas for a cave painting.”

— Jarod Kintz

“When I'm on a backhoe, I'm shaping clay. I am a sculptor. I am a farm artist.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Who art thou? Are you art, or a guy named Art? Doesn’t matter. What does matter is, Are you for sale?”

— Jarod Kintz

“We’re all artists. It’s just most people keep their inner artist locked behind their rib cage.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Artists have to have a good eye. And to be great, I'd recommend having two.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A car crash could be considered art, and I’d like to install one in a museum. Helmets would be sold at the…

— Jarod Kintz

“Making art can be a mystical, spiritual experience. Sort of like golfing on water, which I haven’t done, because I’m more Michael…

— Jarod Kintz

“If you see me sitting at a dining room table with a clean plate and bowl in front of me, you’ll know…

— Jarod Kintz

“It’s not enough to be the best. You also have to be seen by the most. A masterpiece painting hanging in the…

— Jarod Kintz

“I worked with a sketch artist, but I was driving fast when I saw the suspect, so the drawing came out blurry.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Growing up, the only class I didn’t doodle in was Art class, because there I’d get to spend the whole time drawing.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands,…

— Jarod Kintz

“I’m an artist. I’m a cave painter. Archaeologists and art critics of the future are going to call me a genius. They’re…

— Jarod Kintz

“I wish art was like money in that the more I made, the more interest it developed and plentiful it became. Money…

— Jarod Kintz

“Good art is like a sexy pair of lips—it has the potential to say so much, but prefers to have you do…

— Jarod Kintz

“I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of…

— Jarod Kintz

“If artists often get famous posthumously, then there is only one thing for me to do—fake my own death. Or I could…

— Jarod Kintz

“What is art? Art is tar, rearranged. Art is tar on canvas or tar on tarp or tar on a naked body.…

— Jarod Kintz

“I’m not Helen Keller—I’m Van Gogh. It’s not that I can’t hear, it’s that I don’t use my ears.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I’d paint with a beard if I could grow out of my abstract expressionist phase.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Who art thou, Art? Do you make art the way I make love—with a paintbrush?”

— Jarod Kintz

“Even my underwear is art. It's like a splatter painting in yellow I call “Crusty.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I watched a bowl of fruit on the table remain motionless. Just another example of life imitating art.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Love is an art. Mine could fill a museum the size of your heart.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not…

— Jarod Kintz

“Compact trash into a cube. Then slice it into thin layers and BOOM—you’ve got pieces of modern art. Each sliver belongs in…

— Jarod Kintz

“Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those…

— Jarod Kintz

“The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has…

— Jarod Kintz

“I can draw like it’s nobody’s business. I use my door as a canvas, so don’t knock, because it’s nobody’s business.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I put my deodorant on like I’m painting my armpits with a paintbrush. Art is everywhere and in everything—especially love.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I drew a self-portrait of myself, drawn with my eyes closed from a memory someone else may or may not have had…

— Jarod Kintz

“Your impression of me is different than my impression of me. But that’s OK, because your impression is impressionistic, like a Monet…

— Jarod Kintz

Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless its a sunken…

— Jarod Kintz

“A blank canvas is so abstract that only imagination can fill it. But wait! Don't hang it on the wall like that.…

— Jarod Kintz

“A pear, an apple, and a banana in a basket on a table isn’t art, no matter how skillfully painted. But it…

— Jarod Kintz

“I make art for one person and one person only. And as soon as I find that one person, I sure hope…

— Jarod Kintz

“Is something art just because a museum hangs it on their wall? Are you networking just because you’re standing in a crowded…

— Jarod Kintz