Artist Quotes · Page 157

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

— Marina Abramovic

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

— Tony Curtis

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

— Josef Albers

I tried to teach myself to draw anime, but I was so bad.

— Takashi Murakami

“Only in art was cheerful condemned.”

— Nicki Salcedo

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

— Zhang Xiaogang

“I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or you could suck it.”

— Charlie Cochet

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

— Anonymous

Art has helped shape me in a way that is maybe unique, but I've also got to go and put my own…

— Justin Tucker

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

— Jack Levine

As an artist, I struggle with how much of myself to give to the people. How much I want my personal business…

— August Alsina

“Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely .”

— Alexander Pope

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life - as an artist and as a person -…

— Lil Durk

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

— Francis Alys

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

— Maira Kalman

The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities -…

— Dorothy Day

“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in…

— Anonymous

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential…

— Edward Albee

When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time…

— Schoolboy Q

In a way, the whole music industry is just catering to the inherent esteem issues all these artists have - it lays…

— Willis Earl Beal

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he…

— Anna Quindlen

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist…

— Felix Dennis

When you're not as accessible, you get in a tent and get in your own head, and you start doing things that…

— Lena Waithe

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

— Philip Guston

The arts help complete a person. I truly believe that.

— Henry Winkler

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

— Andy Goldsworthy

The social aspect of being an artist has always made me uncomfortable.

— Charles Ray

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

— Pablo Picasso

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

— Josh Silver

“He was like a living, breathing painting on an all-male canvas.”

— Karina Halle

I love painting and have a need to do it.

— Emma Watson

“I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.”

— Robert Dowling

It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it.

— Dawn Richard

“She wants to paint the living room yellow. I have not the words.”

— Mil Millington

Everyday's a good day when you paint

— Bob Ross

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

— Al Yankovic

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

— Edgar Degas

You just can't control your art in the future.

— Damian Loeb

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

— Devendra Banhart