Artist Quotes · Page 141

One genius has made many clever artists.

— Martial

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

— Edgar Degas

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

— Ayn Rand

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

— Jason Momoa

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

— Criss Jami

The arts can change you as a person.

— Michaela DePrince

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

— Jane Alexander

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

— Edward Abbey

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

— Chaim Potok

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Any artist who has ever created something worthwhile has done so by staying true to himself. You can't do it any other…

— Jerrod Edson

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

— Kazimir Malevich

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

— Henry Moore

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

— Cassandra Clare

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

— William Blake

“William Asquith Farnaby was nothing but a muddy filter, on the hither side of which human beings, nature, and even his beloved…

— Aldous Huxley

Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so…

— Sarah Kay

You look at like the '70s, the messianic presence of the artist - it was very much about an audience gathering to…

— Matty Healy

I listen to music very intensely as well: When I listen to an artist I really love, I feel like I know…

— Robyn

The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series.…

— Damien Hirst

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from…

— Jodie Foster

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing…

— Billy Childish

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

— Irving Stone

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

— John Olsen

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

— Mackenzie Foy

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

— Ken Danby

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

— Maureen Johnson

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

— David Letterman

I should like to be famous and unknown.

— Edgar Degas

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

— Katya Zamolodchikova

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

— Marcel Duchamp

“Life as an art cannot be copied; it must be created.”

— Nadia Bandura

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

— Chris Campanioni

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

— Danny Brown

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

— Alexandra Petri

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

— Anonymous