Artist Quotes · Page 151

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

— Abby Martin

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist

— Anish Kapoor

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

— Winslow Homer

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

— Hugo Chavez

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.

— Lari White

I work on drawing as a final product.

— Deanna Petherbridge

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

— Ai Weiwei

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

— Theodore Bikel

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

— Anonymous

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

— Robert Motherwell

“We were poor, but we were happy. We didn’t have much, but we were painting. (Interview in Washington Mag)”

— Alfredo Arreguin

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.

— Yasmine Hamdan

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

— William Faulkner

I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward…

— Kerry James Marshall

“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to…

— Katherine Ann Porter

I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not…

— Carine Roitfeld

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range…

— Gavin Newsom

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And…

— Kehinde Wiley

I've definitely become more commercially successful. I think everything has changed over the past two years. People seem to take me seriously…

— Charli XCX

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are…

— Jerry Saltz

I've always really liked the idea of an artist name, like a cover-up, even though in my music I'm being very personal…

— MO

Look what I drew this awesome I think

— Brianna Ramos

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

— Audre Lorde

I paint my face because 50 percent of me is dead inside.

— Darby Allin

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

— Kate Jackson

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

— Josef Albers

In the arts there are many right answers.

— Jerry Uelsmann

“Art doesn’t fill a space—it transforms it into something sacred.”

— Jennifer Pierre

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

— Patricia Piccinini

I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.

— Mase

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

— Igor Stravinsky

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

— Dennis Potter

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

— Philip James Bailey

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

— Christina Aguilera

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

— Anonymous

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

— Pablo Picasso