Artist Quotes · Page 152

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

— Anonymous

“Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

— Marc Jacobs

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

— Boris Pasternak

All art is concerned with coming into being.

— Aristotle

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.

— Frida Kahlo

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Art is too long, and life is too short,

— Grace Paley

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

— Paddy Mitchell

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

— Laurie Anderson

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

— David Hockney

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries…

— Hans Hofmann

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this…

— Swami Vivekananda

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

— Tom Robbins

[Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the…

— Ed Sheeran

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

— PJ Harvey

This has been my struggle for years - the pull between wanting to be in the spotlight and yet also to make…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the…

— Rajneesh

One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing…

— Kehinde Wiley

One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of…

— Astra Taylor

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to…

— Anonymous

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin.…

— Meredith Ostrom

“I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally…

— Andrew Loomis

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

— Robert Henri

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

— Oscar Wilde

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

— Paul Klee

“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”

— Terry Gilliam

I do portraits - my dad's an artist.

— Fearne Cotton

I am an artsy girl. It's no secret that I am artsy, you know.

— Kreayshawn

“A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp”

— Alice Goldfarb Marquis

Great art can only be created out of love.

— James A. Baldwin

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

— Arthur Koestler

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

— Joe Mantello

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

— Ian Mcewan

“Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents.”

— Anurag Shourie

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

— Jean-Paul Riopelle

“Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.”

— Stephanie Vaughn

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

— Graciela Iturbide