Artist Quotes · Page 113

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

— David Rockefeller

Creating artistically, time has no sympathy, so why wait?

— Raghib Clitso

I just call myself an artist, really.

— Tierra Whack

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

— Urvashi Rautela

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

— Willie Nelson

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

— Ben Eine

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

— Alan Palomo

I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.

— Robert Barnes

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

— Artie Shaw

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

— Joan Miro

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

— Raymond Pettibon

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

— Gustave Courbet

If you call yourself an artist, you won't get anything published. Call yourself a photojournalist, and then you can do whatever you…

— Robert Capa

Art may imitate wild nature; less often does it dare to place itself in the midst of it, and when it does,…

— John Hart

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

— Ashton Kutcher

As a fan of music, there's nothing I hate more than hearing an artist write a new album off the back of…

— Jessica Origliasso

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice…

— Evelyn Waugh

As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once…

— Eric Maisel

The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when…

— Dion Fortune

Artists should re-emphasize performance and de-emphasize recording. You always make more money if you have a healthy performing life than you will…

— Todd Rundgren

The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers…

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but…

— Vincent Van Gogh

You just have to work really hard and throw everything into it. ... It's really hard to be an artist, and even…

— Dana Schutz

As a pop artist by definition, you have to learn to adapt.

— Pedro Capo

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

— Elizabeth Bowen

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

— Auguste Rodin

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

— John Updike

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

— Michael Steinhardt

You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.

— Kehinde Wiley

“Theorists! Stop pretending that you are not artists.”

— Alexei Shulgin

If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

— Future

I just want to make people aware of what art therapy is.

— Karen Pence

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

— Jenny Holzer

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

— Kim Weston

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

— Marcel Duchamp

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

— Tim Allen

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

— Anonymous

“Art is always to an extent about trying to create order out of chaos.”

— Will Gompertz