Artist Quotes · Page 143

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

— Paul Gauguin

In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

— Jean Rostand

Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

— Harold Town

“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

— Steven Wright

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

— Charles Ray

Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.

— Suzi Quatro

My life is art. Its how I express God

— Lisa Bonet

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

— Lawren Harris

What if everything in a museum is crap? It's entirely possible; it's not the end of the world.

— David Salle

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. A”

— Pablo Picasso

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

— Dennis Hopper

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

— Eli Broad

All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.

— John Leguizamo

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

— Rachel Kushner

I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.

— Kehinde Wiley

The Muhammad Ali Act to MMA is necessary to balance the scales between promoter and mixed martial artist and to restore integrity…

— Jon Fitch

And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms…

— Adrian Tomine

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph…

— Edvard Munch

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting…

— Cornelia Parker

It's one thing to be able to sing well, but another to be an artist and find your own voice within music.…

— Gabriella Wilson

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to…

— Mencius

I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get…

— Usamaru Furuya

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no…

— Edvard Munch

I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

— Fiona Apple

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

— Pablo Picasso

When love is at the base of something it is a masterpiece.

— Steve Maraboli

“The careful observance of discipline is the mark of the artiste.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

— Remy de Gourmont

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

— Conor Oberst

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

— John French Sloan

Art is not painting,its the skill the way you do

— Lara Flores

I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room,

— Ralph Fasanella

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I'll always err on the side of art for art's sake.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I think it's good to live an artful life.

— Adam Driver

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

— Ilya Kabakov

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

— David Lynch

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

— Jackson Pollock

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

— Edi Rama