Artist Quotes · Page 172

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,

— Leonard Baskin

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

— Pablo Picasso

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

— Kevin Rowland

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“Art is not sin. It’s not always good. But it is not a sin.”

— Ann Patchett

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

— Mark Roberts

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

— Celine Dion

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

— Lana Del Rey

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

— David Hockney

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

— Walter Darby Bannard

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

If an artist can manage his career, well, that is half the battle to becoming successful.

— Martin Dansky

All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

— Billy Cannon

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

— Demis Roussos

Calling an engineer an applied scientist is like calling an artistic painter an applied pigment chemist

— Ritu Ghatourey

We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which…

— George William Russell

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm…

— Robert Bateman

The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the…

— Roger Ebert

“However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their…

— Richard Williams

I was trying to make my name just Artist in the beginning, but it was weird at first, because I wasn't an…

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point,…

— Julian Schnabel

If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're…

— Vincent Price

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting…

— David Sylvian

I am a professional martial artist, and I am a professional fighter.

— Frank Shamrock

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

— Francesco Clemente

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

— Anne Rice

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

— Pablo Picasso

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

— Paul Reubens

“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.”

— Susan Sontag

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

The art of love is best known by a free thinker.

— Simon Quperlier

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

— Toni Onley

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

— Hannah Arendt

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

— Benjamin West

The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form

— Bruce Lee

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

— Emile Zola

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“the artist plays freely on his faculty of cognition.”

— Jostein Gaarder

There are lots of artists I respect and admire.

— Lisa Stansfield