Artist Quotes · Page 186

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

— Yves Klein

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

— Voltaire

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

— Oscar Wilde

“Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.”

— Amit Kalantri

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

— Helen Van Wyk

“Life may imitate art – but it usually falls short of it.”

— Anthony Horowitz

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

— Doris Lessing

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

— Andre Breton

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.

— Porter Robinson

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

— Arshile Gorky

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

— Michael Chekhov

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is…

— Lauren Jauregui

I'd much rather be called a champagne socialist than be an artist that isn't talking about the most pressing issue on the…

— Matty Healy

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the…

— Rose McGowan

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

— Walter Darby Bannard

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Art cannot be excused from following God’s law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into…

— Abraham Kuyper

My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists…

— Samuel Beckett

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at…

— Kendrick Lamar

I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work…

— Olivia Wilde

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I…

— Hiromu Arakawa

It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When…

— Will Smith

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing...

— John Ruskin

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

— Richard Eyre

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

I was good at art - always good at art.

— Robert Barry

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

— Victor Hugo

This is my rose that I drew. I likey!!

— Christopher Timmerman

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

— Eric Maisel

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

— Howard Hodgkin

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

— Joss Whedon

I really enjoy sculpting, like wood carving, and do artwork.

— Josh Blue

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

— Chuck Close

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

— George A. Moore

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Art is the magical act of one bleeding heart healing another.”

— Akash Mandal

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

I want to be the greatest mixed martial artist ever.

— Jon Fitch