Artist Quotes · Page 109

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

— Mason Cooley

As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.

— Nelly Furtado

Painting is so much more than the materials.

— Brian Johnson

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

— Greg Lake

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

— Piet Mondrian

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

— Kenneth Noland

What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions.

— Muriel Barbery

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

— Ezra Pound

I've really grown from how I used to be. Things are changing in MAJOR ways. Just wait and see. I'm not longer…

— Anonymous

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

— Sigmar Polke

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

— Anton Webern

I have had such a satisfying career; I've gotten to do so many amazing things as an artist.

— Lari White

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine,…

— Andy Warhol

One may draw a dragon or a tiger, but it is hard to draw their skeletons; one may know a person's face…

— Anonymous

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

— Luc Tuymans

One thing that I do want to say is Drake, as an artist, anybody has to respect him. He's in the game,…

— Ski Mask the Slump God

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…

— William Kingdon Clifford

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what…

— Bobbi Brown

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not…

— Maria Callas

It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals,…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city…

— Thomas Heatherwick

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists…

— Brandon Boyd

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

— John Mellencamp

Inclusivity is extremely important in any art form.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

I am an artiste in a free world, I am supposed to raise questions.

— Richa Chadha

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

— Benjamin Franklin

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

— Martin Kippenberger

That's my duty. Just make powerful art.

— Matty Healy

I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.

— Daveed Diggs

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

— Victor Pinchuk

I'll stick to painting as long as I can.

— Tom Thomson

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

— Christopher Cross

There has always been a correlation between money and art.

— Simon de Pury

“For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?”

— A. Manette Ansay

Paint the essential character of things.

— Camille Pissarro

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

— Paul Gauguin