Artist Quotes · Page 176

“Sometimes life is stranger than art.”

— H.P. Mallory

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

— Sylvester Stallone

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

— Neil LaBute

I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.

— Lizzy Caplan

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

— Rene Magritte

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

— Skylar Laine

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

— Anthony Kiedis

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

— Lady Gaga

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

— Roy Lichtenstein

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your…

— Norman Mailer

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

— Aristotle

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

— E-40

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the…

— Harry Callahan

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

— Albert Camus

“The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.”

— John Steinbeck

There is a Nina Simone quote, 'It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.' This quote is everything to me and…

— Raye

Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency…

— Gil Scott-Heron

Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up…

— Tama J. Kieves

I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of…

— Frank Gehry

Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad…

— Eric Kandel

The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies…

— Laurie Simmons

Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease…

— Austin Osman Spare

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I…

— Raymond Chandler

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

— William Blake

“Well, then, let’s not just trust the likelihood based on painting.”

— Socrates

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

— Amandla Stenberg

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

— John McCormack

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

— Damien Hirst

I realized what an artist is and what it is to be an artist.

— Sergei Polunin

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

— Robert Henri

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

— Amanda Palmer

“Artist is not human, but humanity.”

— Raheel Farooq

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

— Sergei Polunin

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

— Charley Pride

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

— Robert Henri

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

— Anonymous

Every true artist is at war with the world.

— Anthony Kiedis

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

— Georges Braque