Artist Quotes · Page 162

I am not the perfect piece for your perfect art.

— Joantonette Morano

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

— John Kurtz

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

— Eran Creevy

I drew this last year for art. Yay or nay?

— Aly Johnson

“The English artist likes line more than color or texture.”

— Neville Weston

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

— Alex Colville

As an artist you have to keep reinventing yourself.

— David Hammons

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

— Ana Castillo

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

— Kanye West

“I decide that the craziest, strangest, most unbelievable thing I could ever draw is me doing something right.”

— Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Artists deserve more than a check cut in half eight times by publishers.

— Jack Conte

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.

— Jared Leto

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.

— Michael Chow

I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art.

— Arthur Smith

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is…

— Yayoi Kusama

Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it…

— Luc Tuymans

It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then…

— Raymond Pettibon

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't…

— Rick James

I always try to find time to do some graffiti here and there, but most of the time, I have so many…

— Alec Monopoly

“There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their…

— Ken Robinson

“The fact remains that he was less a pope than a Renaissance prince. Homosexual like his predecessor, he was a cultivated and…

— John Julius Norwich

My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual,…

— Alexej von Jawlensky

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

— Robert Delaunay

They're not dogs [poodles], they're art.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

— Kenneth Noland

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

— Louis Kronenberger

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

— Marcel Duchamp

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

— Philip Guston

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

— Flora Thompson

“Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them.”

— Atticus Poetry

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

— Rachel Dratch

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

— Kurt Eisner

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

— Jean-Michel Jarre

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

— Caryl Churchill

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

— Nancy Lancaster

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow