Artist Quotes · Page 101

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

— Billy Childish

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

— Jeanette Winterson

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

— George Sand

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

— Paul Cezanne

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

— Marina Abramovic

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

— Agnes Martin

There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“self-annihilation is necessary for high art”

— Kunal Sen

“Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.”

— Michael Ondaatje

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

— Robert Genn

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even…

— Friedrich Schiller

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

— Idina Menzel

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give…

— Jean Cocteau

Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy…

— George W. Bush

Through the arts, you can impact upon people's attitudes, values, and understandings.

— Yolanda King

If I had to collaborate with anybody on a song, I would pick Kendrick Lamar because he is so dope as an…

— Adrian Marcel

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It…

— Eugene Delacroix

There are so many different ways to talk and think about art. We just spoke about when attitude becomes form. But when…

— David Salle

“These are shows designed for the underground artists, painters, philosophers, thinkers, musicians, visual artists, poets, set designers––it’s a creative community that’s coming…

— HXS Arthouse Director Amish Darr

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So,…

— Damien Chazelle

If I'm in the business of making artwork that is designed on some level to sell a product, then I have to…

— John Dyer Baizley

I would love for my existence as an artist to be completely about my art - not about my social media, or…

— Aesop Rock

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of…

— Thomas Ligotti

Each year, more people want to become artists.

— Ai Weiwei

Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream.

— John Lindberg

Every canvas is a journey all its own.

— Helen Frankenthaler

I've been slagged off completely by the art world

— Tracey Emin

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

— Kehinde Wiley

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

— Maggie Nelson

“Every second in the air in Paris, is art.”

— Jack Freestone

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

— Clara Schumann

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

— Wilson Mizner

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

— Charles Saatchi

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

— Robert Barry

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

— John F. Carlson

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

— Banksy