Artist Quotes · Page 159

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

— Etgar Keret

I always hope that the artwork will complement and enrich a story.

— Robert Paul Weston

People think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

— Woody Allen

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

— Walter Legge

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

— Jules Renard

Paint stuff and make jam. You're good at doing that.

— Ed Sheeran

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

— Sergei Bongart

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

— Kesha

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

— Oscar Wilde

I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

— Nikki Giovanni

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

— Honore de Balzac

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

— Claes Oldenburg

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep…

— Paloma Picasso

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

— Sara Blecher

The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never…

— Daniel H. Pink

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes…

— Mitchel Musso

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are…

— Joseph Conrad

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public…

— Banksy

I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say…

— Common

I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm…

— Chip Kidd

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and…

— Ella Henderson

An artwork is an arrangement of things. The ideal show for me would be if everything touched, literally touched, so that everything…

— Glenn Ligon

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

— Stephanie Seymour

We do have to be a witness to our art.

— David Koechner

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

— Barbara Boxer

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

— Camille Paglia

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

— Frances Harper

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

— Del Close

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

— Amit Kalantri

The young Leonardo was a bit too fiery.

— Leonardo Bonucci

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

— Caitlin Moran

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.

— Tibor Kalman

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

— Steve Coogan

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

— Donatella Versace

When you break an artist, you learn a lot.

— Scott Borchetta

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

— Virginia Woolf