Artist Quotes · Page 112

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

— Kanye West

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

“If it is art, it is not for all. If it is for all, it is not art.”

— Schoenberg

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

— Pablo Picasso

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted.

— Anne Hathaway

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

— Kehinde Wiley

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

— Bono

“...there is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it." 390”

— Hilary Mantel

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

— Chuck Close

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

— Mitski

I know there are people who are praying for my downfall, but they're going to be like, 'Wow, Xan's actually an artist.'

— Lil Xan

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way., I think seeing a picture is one thing and…

— Jasper Johns

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

— John F. Kennedy

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

— Fernando Pessoa

Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then…

— Edwin Starr

“Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window…

— Claudia Gray

I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres…

— J. D. Sedding

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say…

— Jeffrey Deitch

That's the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It's not about honesty…

— Maria Konnikova

I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport…

— Steve Sabol

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how…

— Uzo Aduba

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that…

— Billy Childish

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

— Robert Merrill

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

— Maurice Sendak

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

— Joseph Addison

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

— Orson Welles

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

— Jim Davis

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

— Orson Welles

What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

— Christopher Willard

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

— William Butler Yeats

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

I really prize and love great painting.

— John Lithgow

I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

— Imogen Poots

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

— Herb Alpert

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

— Herbert Read

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

— Paul Cezanne

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

— Ayn Rand

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

— Walter Darby Bannard