Artist Quotes · Page 175

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

— Ana Mendieta

“Maybe I'll be an artist if I grow up.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Art problems are problems of human relationship.

— Josef Albers

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

— Bruce Lee

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

— Pierre Bonnard

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

— James Anthony Froude

You are not truly a Warhol superstar unless you are dead.

— Jackie Curtis

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

— Whitney Chadwick

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

— Mike Tyson

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

— Vincent Price

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

— Raheem Jarbo

We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.

— Julianne Moore

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

— Emily Dickinson

Cobra haffi pull yuh golden door knob. Paint yuh bedroom wid oil paint whey mi have.

— Mad Cobra

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

— Ben Okri

“Artists have to learn how to paint what's in the mirror, even if what they see is a total shit show.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of…

— Helen Frankenthaler

Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own…

— Billy Sherwood

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I…

— Kathleen Hanna

It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a…

— Val Kilmer

Fortunately I had a great intern who did a lot of the research on Andy's prices, which of course are phenomenal, but…

— Bob Colacello

There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no…

— Georg Baselitz

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you…

— Vikram Seth

The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which…

— Jonathan Santlofer

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

— Seneca the Younger

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

— Bertrand Russell

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

— Marilyn Manson

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

— Alberto Giacometti

“The is nothing that art cannot express”

— Oscar Wilde

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

— Kenneth Noland

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

— Georges Seurat

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

— Caio Fonseca

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

— Chuck Close

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

— Adrienne Rich

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

— Rithy Panh

All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon

— Diane Duane

“With a starry brush, paint the dusk Venetian blue”

— Owl City

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

— Jack Kerouac

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

— Michelle Chamuel

“I don't like to spend money; I like to spend time .”

— Jill Telford