Artist Quotes · Page 103

Becoming a Top Ten artist has surprised me.

— Billy Squier

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

— Beatrice Dalle

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” —Orson Welles”

— Todd Henry

Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

— Ned Rorem

I am an artiste and truly a free spirit.

— Deepti Naval

In the center was a tiny handprint in red paint.

— J.R. Ward

Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more...

— Richard Schmid

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

— Pablo Picasso

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.

— Thomas Hirschhorn

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson,…

— Lynne Tillman

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

— Tobin Bell

“We are all artists; painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

— J. B. Smoove

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

— Kehinde Wiley

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

— Pablo Picasso

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself…

— Jerry Saltz

If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that…

— Sevyn Streeter

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising,…

— Ellen Dissanayake

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt…

— Salman Rushdie

When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the…

— Liu Dan

“To put it figuratively, the role played by a logotherapist is rather that of an eye specialist than of a painter. A…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Work your craft; until it becomes an art form.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

— Steve Coogan

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

— Bill Murray

The best of any artist is in their art.

— George C. Wolfe

My drawing of me n Jaz I cut my hair look n u see in the drawing.

— Moon

I don't have a makeup bag, I have a makeup artist!

— Erika Jayne

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

— Orhan Pamuk

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

— Robert Hughes

Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

— David Altmejd

It's nearly impossible to make a living in the arts.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.

— Peter London

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

— Marina Abramovic

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

— Joseph Joubert

If only art were as rare as good taste.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.

— Kay Kay Menon

I don't think art matters as much as keeping people safe.

— Perfume Genius