Artist Quotes · Page 153

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

— Ricky Gervais

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

— Halldór Laxness

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

— Mason Cooley

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

— Joseph Plaskett

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

— James Rosenquist

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

— William Morris

“Life in a palace rather resembles camping in a museum,”

— Kate Williams

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to…

— Michael Kimmelman

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

— Neville Marriner

I sort of had that fantasy of being one of the muses of Paris and hanging out with Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso.

— Bebe Buell

“Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.”

— Milan Kundera

I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing.

— William Klein

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

— Mary Pratt

I believe strongly that the word 'protest' is no excuse for bad work. The artist must create.

— John Kani

“Actual artists are like mythological creatures,' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it…

— Anonymous

“I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion…

— Miranda Lambert

“I'd see him do things that didn't fit with his face or hands, things like painting a picture at OT with real…

— Ken Kesey

Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act…

— Caridad Svich

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate.…

— Annie Lennox

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis…

— Peter Doig

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a…

— Russell Smith

I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has…

— Sharon Zukin

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

— Nancy Springer

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

— Eckhart Tolle

As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.

— Beth Grant

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

— Thomas Hoving

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

— Andy Warhol

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

— Jennifer Aniston

“My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.”

— Neal Shusterman

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

— John Stuart Mill

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

— H. R. Giger

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

— Fritz Scholder

“Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

— Richard Jefferies

The spirit of love and good art have equal beauty

— Masahisa Goi

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

— Raoul Dufy

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

— Jeffrey Archer

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

— Billy Al Bengston