Artist Quotes · Page 17

Art is the god you have not seen.

— Mary Butts

Your life is your art.

— Keri Smith

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

— Anonymous

I'm growing as an artist.

— YG

My drawing of an emo guys face

— Crystal

I made one untitled piece.

— Damien Hirst

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

— Louise Bourgeois

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

— Rico Nasty

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

— Peter Ustinov

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

— James Gray

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

— Ani DiFranco

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

— Patti Smith

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

— Henry Moore

“I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“May we each design our own masterpiece”

— Tammy Muehlfelder

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

— Tahar Rahim

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

— Daveed Diggs

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

— Paula Cole

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

— Black Thought

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

— Richard Clayderman

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

— Trevor Paglen

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

— Joe Bradley

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

— Kate Millett

Sometimes as an artist you don't want to be an entertainer. You want to offend people and inspire them and that's not…

— Lacey Sturm

The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral…

— William Kentridge

“Pursuing an artistic existence can let you experience emotions you wouldn’t know otherwise. It gives you hope and helps you see the…

— Pantelis Kassotis

“We cross paths with human beings moment by moment and seldom stop to marvel at these feeling, thinking, acting, doing, creating, capable-of-loving…

— Tim Hast

The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if…

— Enrico Caruso

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in…

— Denis Donoghue

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people…

— Ben Sollee

If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You…

— Mary Beard

Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she…

— Steve Almond

“Art is not eternal.”

— Tom Wolfe

Life too near paralyses art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the essence of awareness.

— John O'Donohue

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Art destroys the life.”

— Irving Stone

What I'm good at is making art.

— Jock Sturges

Art depends on luck and talent.

— Francis Ford Coppola

The life I live is my art work.

— Alec Monopoly