Artist Quotes · Page 100

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

— A. S. Byatt

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.

— Bob Ross

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

— Alan Cooper

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

— Vito Acconci

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

— Wayne White

To create a work of art is to create the world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The history of art is the history of revivals.

— Samuel Butler

The work of art is above all a process of creation.

— Paul Klee

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

— Nipsey Hussle

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

— Marcel Duchamp

For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.

— Dua Lipa

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

— Bill Watterson

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting,…

— Julian Schnabel

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each…

— Brad Holland

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate…

— Angela Carter

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .…

— Anton Chekhov

To achieve something I don't think is a big thing but to maintain and sustain it, is an art. This is something…

— Bhuvan Bam

“It is likely that this very maelstrom of conflicted impulses is what has foiled all previous attempts to come up with a…

— Benjamin Blech

“Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated…

— Sylvan Barnet

“When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully,…

— Flannery O'Connor

“the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact. (According to the Peruvian critic César Paternosto, such…

— Charles C. Mann

I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really…

— Amy Hardie

I think the artist community is very tight-knit.

— Machine Gun Kelly

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

— Agnes Gund

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

— Devendra Banhart

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.

— John Spencer

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“Christian art, like obscene art, is surface level.”

— Anonymous

Art comes from life, not from the studio

— Marina Abramovic

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,

— Dana Gioia

I do believe that painting can change the world.

— David Hockney

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

— Lionel Trilling

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

— Anselm Kiefer

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

— Rod Serling

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

— Roy Lichtenstein