Artist Quotes · Page 166

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

— Ben Eine

I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.

— Robert Barnes

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

— Alan Palomo

I really prize and love great painting.

— John Lithgow

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

— Imogen Poots

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

— Herb Alpert

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

— Herbert Read

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

— Dave Grohl

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

— Lee Clow

That's what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.

— Tierra Whack

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of…

— Ai Weiwei

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets…

— Daniel Tosh

“A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit…”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

— George Plimpton

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

— Walter Darby Bannard

We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe…

— Ja Rule

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a…

— Laurie Anderson

But Stacie Orrico was my childhood hero. I was about 12 when I found her music. She is a contemporary Christian artist,…

— Christina Grimmie

I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even…

— Sean Scully

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude.…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I…

— Jane Seymour

I'm a real big Marilyn Manson fan. I get a lot of my styles from him. Not even musically - living-wise, too.…

— Lil Uzi Vert

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how…

— Jamie Foxx

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

— Paul Cezanne

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

— Robert Merrill

“...there is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it." 390”

— Hilary Mantel

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

— Jim Davis

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

— Orson Welles

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

— Joseph Addison

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

— Maurice Sendak

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

— Orson Welles

What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

— Christopher Willard

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

— William Butler Yeats

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

— Audrey Flack

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

— Twyla Tharp

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

— Henri Matisse

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

— Yusaku Maezawa

My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.

— Carson Ellis