Artist Quotes · Page 150

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

— Arnold Schoenberg

Art is manipulation without intervention.

— Louise Bourgeois

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.

— John French Sloan

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

— Heart Evangelista

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

— Ellen Dissanayake

“All art is in revolution of tyranny.”

— Atticus

The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut…

— Elizabeth Aston

“Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the…

— Eric Samuel Timm

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

— Morgan Fairchild

The artist I would love to be is inspiring and strong: show that I can be vulnerable but still independent.

— Grace VanderWaal

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

— Walter J. Phillips

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

— Liam Payne

How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us…

— Eric Hoffer

Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly…

— e. e. cummings

Working a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as…

— Molly Crabapple

Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment,…

— Cleve Jones

I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the…

— Erykah Badu

I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an…

— Chloe Kohanski

I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like…

— Paul McDonald

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've…

— Donald Barthelme

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

— Alice Walker

Love-making is an art which must be studied.

— Ivor Novello

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

— Andre Gide

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

— Henri Matisse

“We have truth in order not to die of art. ”

— Steve Aylett

As an artist, you always want to never forget where you come from.

— Playboi Carti

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

A fragile painting left without a scenery

— Anonymous

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

— Macklemore

You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.

— Agnes Gund

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

— Robert Schumann

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

— Francis Bacon

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

— Joss Whedon

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

— Talib Kweli

“I'm... a blank canvas. There's nothing here to love.”

— Stephanie Perkins