Artist Quotes · Page 161

Art's too long and life's too short.

— Grace Paley

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

— Maurice Sendak

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

— Elton John

My dad said I should draw this for him. It looks easy enough

— Anonymous

As an artist, I'm always on the hunt for clothes no one else has.

— Carly Pearce

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

— Hermann Hesse

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

— Henry Miller

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

— Caitlin Moran

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true…

— Mat Kearney

I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.

— Jean Fautrier

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in…

— Lady Gaga

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it…

— Nhat Hanh

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's…

— Jimi Hendrix

Life is beautiful like a painting. It is us who choose what color to use in order to make it memorable and…

— Aga La Tina

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

— Pharrell Williams

The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest…

— Jacques Maritain

You should form your own opinions, and I think that's why social media is good because it's an alternative source of information…

— Ellie Rowsell

If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's…

— Luke Combs

If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe…

— Chuck D

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no…

— William Morris

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make…

— John Kricfalusi

I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process…

— Michael Bell

For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each…

— Audrey Flack

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

— Jill Sobule

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

— Louise Bourgeois

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

— Henri Rousseau

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

— John Milius

I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.

— Kelis

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

— Augustus John

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

— Theodor Adorno

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

— Edouard Manet

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

— Ken Danby

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“Art isn’t about where it ends up. It’s about the creation.”

— Lauren Dane

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

— Jack Levine

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

— Mackenzie Crook

I want painting to be difficult to do.

— Richard Diebenkorn

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

— Gao Xingjian