Artist Quotes · Page 118

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

— Kevin Smith

“Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

— Mary Cassatt

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

— Ad Reinhardt

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

— Amit Kalantri

A picture I drew of my girl friend from our first date.

— Matthew CAmpbell

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

— Steve Jobs

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

— Barbara Smith

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move…

— John Baldessari

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

— Henri Matisse

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

— Jay Sean

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

— Roseanne Barr

We're the artist of our life, we shape things no one else can hear touch smell or see.

— Jeremy Limn

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

— Jonathan Miller

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

— Anonymous

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but…

— Conrad Veidt

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas -…

— Abbi Jacobson

We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The…

— Madeleine L'Engle

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege…

— Nick Blaemire

That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings…

— Kehinde Wiley

I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark.…

— RM

“I suppose that really I had a training or education not so very different from a lot of other artists and illustrators…

— Quentin Blake

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

— Oscar Wilde

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

— Fra Angelico

Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

— Jack White

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.

— Robert M. Pirsig

I'd rather produce art than become art.

— Steven Morrissey

Forget good for you - art should be good to you.

— Robert Christgau

My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.

— Wendy Whelan

A work of art doesn't have to be explained,

— Louise Bourgeois

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

— Ad Reinhardt

“It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.”

— Nina Simone

My gallery represents a lot of figurative artists.

— Larry Gagosian

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

— John Kricfalusi

I've been painting since I was a kid.

— Dan Amboyer

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.

— Charlotte Caffey

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

— Peter Doig

We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

— Eileen Gray