Artist Quotes · Page 121

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

— Alberto Giacometti

“The is nothing that art cannot express”

— Oscar Wilde

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

— Georges Seurat

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

— Caio Fonseca

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

— Isadora Duncan

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

— Alan Patricof

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

— Pat Oliphant

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

— John Kurtz

Life is the art of drawing without any eraser. So b careful while taking any small decision about valuable page of Our…

— Melchor Lim

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

— Thia Megia

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

— Jessie Ware

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment…

— Michelle Obama

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make…

— Alessia Cara

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

— Alma Gluck

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.

— Mark Tobey

I think that every artist - or anybody that's in business - could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that…

— Nipsey Hussle

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only…

— Pablo Picasso

It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess…

— Flying Lotus

I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have…

— Sasha Grey

The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing.…

— Albert Hadley

I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an…

— Florence Welch

Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked.…

— Sherwood Anderson

“You can be an anonymous observer all your life, but then you never get the platform to transform those observations into art,…

— Christoph Waltz

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

— Gore Vidal

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

— Leo Tolstoy

The new artists with gimmicks have the most problems staying out here.

— Sisqo

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

Art problems are problems of human relationship.

— Josef Albers

“Maybe I'll be an artist if I grow up.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

— Ana Mendieta

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

— Christopher Bram

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

— Martin Puryear

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

— Mark Tobey

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

— Caspar David Friedrich

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

— Robert Henri

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

— Eric Maisel