Artist Quotes · Page 142

Art makes you a better human being, and that reflects in society.

— Pankaj Tripathi

If people don't think your crazy it means your not doing anything...

— Milana May

Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.

— Jeffrey Tambor

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

— John Lennon

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

— David Bowie

I've experienced everything any aspiring artist could ever want.

— Craig David

I would never finish my home work but I was good at drawing and craft.

— Sooraj Pancholi

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

— George Bernard Shaw

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

— Henry Moore

It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.

— Ugo Mochi

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.

— Prince

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

— Yelawolf

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

— Roger de Grey

Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.

— Larry Gagosian

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and…

— Marina Abramovic

Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential…

— Bruce Springsteen

My game was completely ground based and I didn't really use my hands, and now I feel my game has improved a…

— Brandon Moreno

It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first,…

— Robert Rodriguez

I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the…

— David Salle

“The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's…

— Ayn Rand

I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain…

— John Lurie

We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of…

— Frederick Lenz

“He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need…

— Thomas Bernhard

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

— Bibhu Mohapatra

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

— Francisco Goya

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

— Louis C. K

I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.

— FKA twigs

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

— Albert Camus

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

— Henry Moore

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.

— Marcel Duchamp

This is creepy but I did it idk why but weird but cool lol

— Brianna Ramos

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

— Dan Reynolds

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

— Scott Caan

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

— Maynard James Keenan

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

— Salvador Dali

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

— Patti Smith

In art, practice always comes before theory.

— Pablo Picasso

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

— John Henry Newman