Artist Quotes · Page 12

“Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.”

— Francis Picabia

“Art is a serious matter”

— umberto eco

In the end there is only Matisse.

— Pablo Picasso

All I owe the world is my art.

— Sherman Alexie

Drawing is still the bottom line.

— Robert Genn

I like making art.

— Ed Skrein

I love this drawing I made

— Courtney Hood

“There's no 'Safety First' in Art.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rumours of me being Banksy are greatly exaggerated. We are all Banksy.

— Robert Del Naja

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

— Albert Camus

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

— Henri Matisse

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

My drawing rate thumbs up for good thumbs down for dont like

— Marshall Lee

All of my role models as an artist have always been women actors.

— Cody Fern

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human…

— Lin Yutang

I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.

— Yuna

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

— Stacie Cunningham

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

— Scott McClanahan

I'm a lifelong martial artist and to have an arena to test my skills is essential for me.

— Dan Hardy

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

— Woody Allen

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

— John Legend

The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings…

— Salman Rushdie

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting.…

— Stephen Fry

“In the 20th century after WWII, Ralph Burke Tyree led the transformation and appreciation of the South Pacific’s serene beauty with his…

— C.J. Cook

Of course, I, like the sponsoring government, would like to have as many people as possible visit Yokohama Triennale. This is because…

— Yasumasa Morimura

I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a…

— Jason Segel

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever…

— Frida Kahlo

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating…

— Alan Bennett

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach…

— Sol LeWitt

I used to draw a lot.

— Jaimie Alexander

Art has absolutely changed my life.

— Peter Weller

My art has gained some high value.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Art disturbs, science reassures.

— Georges Braque

I tried to draw danny

— DevilgirlLovesU

I think art can reflect tragedy.

— John Corigliano

Artists are great. They jump in.

— Richard Linklater

Now life is imitating art.

— Rakim