Artist Quotes · Page 130

People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.

— Eli Broad

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

— Tom Robbins

A sketch of a man facing to the right.

— Adam Smith

This is one doodle that can't be undid homeskillet.

— Rainn Wilson

“The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.”

— T.A. Uner

Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

— Moses

“The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.”

— Flannery O'Connor

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.

— Marcel Duchamp

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else…

— Carl Andre

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

— Willem de Kooning

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

— Seth Godin

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

— Peter Marino

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

— Kesha

“It is a spectacular illusion – a deeply three-dimensional scene flattened onto an earthly canvas.”

— Stefanie Payne

I think that I can get into the paint anytime I want to. What I have learned is that when I do…

— Eric Bledsoe

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion.…

— Louise Bourgeois

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And…

— Anthony Quinn

There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms…

— John Zachary Young

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the…

— Willem de Kooning

“What are you doing here?” All right, he was standing in front of an easel, holding a paint palette and brush. “Taxidermy?”…

— Robyn Carr

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words…

— Julio Iglesias

“You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all…

— Gary D. Schmidt

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me…

— Jeff Koons

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

— Nikky Finney

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

— Walt Disney

“As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

— Malcolm Mclaren

“Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.”

— Elisabeth Bronfen

To me, all business is a form of art.

— Quincy Brown

“Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.”

— Iris Murdoch

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

— Edward Abbey

“No work of art can compare to a city.”

— Woody Allen

I can't say a specific artist inspired or influenced 'Soul Travel.'

— Caleb McLaughlin

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

— Charles Eames

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

— Matt Bomer

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

— Neil Gaiman

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

“My collage opens my heart to endless joy. I am an artist!”

— Amy Leigh Mercree