Artist Quotes · Page 139

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

— Isabel Bishop

I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.

— Kenny Florian

True art consists in concealing art.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

— Marlene Dumas

Art is not to throw light but to be light...

— Kenneth Patchen

A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine.

— DMX

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

— Alexander McQueen

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

— Marc Chagall

“I don't want to be here when my latest work of accidental art is discovered.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

“I identified historical hierarchical division of the arts into fine arts and craft as a major force in the marginalisation of women's…

— Rozsika Parker

I just wanna be able to be honest with the art and do it because it's flowing and it's real to me.

— Lacey Sturm

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and…

— Dennis Hopper

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that…

— Franz Grillparzer

It's not easy to go from reality TV to being taken seriously as an artist, so I don't think I'll be doing…

— Chanel West Coast

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people,…

— Alexander Theroux

“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are…

— John Berger

Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs.…

— Brian Chippendale

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else…

— Daniel Tammet

To show a different side on 'Love & Hip Hop' and bring some validity to it and not just be ratchet, messy…

— Omarion

You can looking at that glass of water, not as a glass of water, but as paint on a two-dimensional surface. It's…

— Malcolm Morley

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are…

— Tony Visconti

I get ticked off a lot because I don't think she [Faith Hill] gets the respect she deserves. I tell her all…

— Tim McGraw

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

— Paul Monette

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

— Joaquin Sorolla

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

— Theodor Adorno

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

— Dawn Angelique

“What is "technique" but the absence of passion?”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.”

— ELLE NICOLAI

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...

— Willem de Kooning

Now is the canvas on which all masterpieces are made.

— Devin Waugh

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

— Apuleius

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

— Jonah Lehrer

That art is best which suggests most.

— Austin O'Malley

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

— Steven Pressfield

Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?

— Tite Kubo

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

— Eddy Grant

I painted this do you people like it

— Slowly_fading

To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.

— Jessica Simpson