Artist Quotes · Page 134

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

— Rembrandt

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

— Mason Cooley

Every man is a painter and the sculptor of his own life.

— Pacifiersucker

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

— Ad Reinhardt

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

— Sid Sriram

I have a strong art-history background.

— Eli Roth

Art is an international language, understood by all.

— Igor Babailov

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

— Mary GrandPre

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

— Naomi Watts

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

— Stefan Sagmeister

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

— William Shakespeare

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

— Charli XCX

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

— Antonio Gaudi

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it...

— Harold Rosenberg

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

— Carl Andre

The power of your audience is in the hand of the artist now via all the media - Facebook and Twitter and…

— Peter Frampton

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in…

— Zaha Hadid

For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and…

— Marco Brambilla

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a…

— Andy Serkis

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to…

— Akon

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every…

— Janet Fitch

If you like looking at 'Starry Night' or water lilies or whatever, then why does it matter if it's an original? If…

— Chris Cubas

“I find the plainness and economizing record of materials handled calming. Realistic yet not austere, because what corresponds—the words oil on canvas—has…

— Durga Chew-Bose

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

— Claude Debussy

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I am the greatest marital artist in the world.

— Judah Friedlander

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

— Tom Spanbauer

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

— Robert Henri

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

— Kim Weston

It's only artists who can help artists.

— Juliette Lewis

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

— Paul Rand

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

— Lenora Crichlow

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

— Ad Reinhardt

I like to draw with silver it comes out red MAGIC?

— Anonymous

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

— Paul McCartney

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

— Anonymous

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

— Lynn Johnston

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

— Salvador Dali