Artist Quotes · Page 127

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

— Little Simz

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

— Washington Allston

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

— Paulo Coelho

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

— Albert Camus

“Talented man cannot do the work of a genius man.”

— Amit Kalantri

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

— Howard Dietz

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

— William Butler Yeats

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

— Norman Rockwell

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

— Alice Neel

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.

— Omarion

Working with my friend Sir Antony Sher is truly one of the highlights of my career as an artist.

— John Kani

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

— Aristotle

You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.

— Marina and the Diamonds

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more…

— Cecily Brown

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will…

— Thomas Merton

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual,…

— Barbara Kruger

“I have told the story of the great plague-summer; as an artist I could have wished that there had been more structure…

— Kenneth Patchen

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I…

— Howard Ikemoto

I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me.…

— Caio Fonseca

I see friends of mine who have kids and continue to do their art. It's deeply impressive. I can't even fit an…

— Sheila Heti

A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure…

— Paul Gauguin

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

— James Whistler

“No...he lives to create art, but he loves to murder.”

— Mo Beija

Art = a mad search for individualism.

— Paul Gauguin

Study the science of art and the art of science.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Meek is a great artist and he's very focused.

— Trina

I exist in the world and live in my art.

— Joseph Curiale

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

— Jacob Collins

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

— Chris Ware

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

— Lady Gaga

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

— Agnes Martin

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

— B. Traven

“I’m convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power.”

— Veronika Carnaby

There is nothing that art cannot express.

— Oscar Wilde

“My art will now only consist of she-wolf elbows.”

— Ilze Lipins

“Either you are an artist or you use AI, you cannot do both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

— Leonora Carrington