Artist Quotes · Page 156

I had a big collection of fried eggs that I painted

— Shakira

“Sex is an art; those who know better are the better artists.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

— Margaret Caroline Anderson

I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.

— Maria Callas

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

— Lazaro Hernandez

“What is art, if not the mind materialized?”

— Alistair Cross

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

— Mark Rothko

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

— Edward Ruscha

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as…

— Marshall McLuhan

The way it works is the manager's sort of, you know, is like the hub of an artist's career.

— Troy Carter

Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.

— David Shields

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

— Jim Broadbent

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit…

— D. H. Lawrence

I want to touch on every form of art and be the best at it and be the biggest at it.

— Benny Cassette

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

— Giorgio Morandi

“There are two things in this world that I want to do endlessly: make art and make love. And with you, they…

— Jessica Yeh

You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before…

— Ari Shaffir

Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a…

— Paul Outerbridge

Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process…

— Anne Truitt

Dear Kanye West. It is YOU who is so busy disrespecting artistry. You disrespect your own remarkable talents and more importantly you…

— Shirley Manson

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're…

— Ava DuVernay

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an…

— Eric Butterworth

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying…

— Kathleen Hanna

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

Well, for one I really feel that we should protect Black art.

— Rich Homie Quan

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

— Nick Cave

I've grown as an artist, as a person, as a songwriter.

— Maisie Peters

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

— John Kurtz

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

— Franz Kline

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

— Peter Frampton

God and other artists are always a little obscure…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

— MaryAnn F. Kohl

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

— Robert Longo

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

— Jean Paul

The most important thing an artist can discover is a love of process.

— Kody Chamberlain

“~Paint a pretty picture, it takes one to make it real...”

— Anonymous

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

— Christo

I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.

— Laurie Simmons