Artist Quotes · Page 187

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

— Gulzar

According to me, art is honest and free.

— Shriya Saran

“I paint the beautiful pictures in my mind with words.”

— Graylin Fox

An artist is always in the state of becoming.

— Bob Dylan

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

— Amiri Baraka

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

— Kathy Lette

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

— Skitch Henderson

TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.

— Cheyenne Kimball

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

— Danny Fox

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until…

— Franz Kline

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump…

— John Dyer Baizley

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

— John Kani

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

— Marina Abramovic

If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

— KRS-One

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a…

— Philip Taaffe

I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction…

— Joseph Altuzarra

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there…

— Roger Daltrey

I enjoyed cross-country road trips. And I found the work challenging because it was art that existed on the land rather than…

— Virginia Dwan

If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its…

— Wyndham Lewis

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others…

— Horace

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to…

— Isadora Duncan

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that…

— Joseph Beuys

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”

— Albrecht Dürer

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

— Anthony Burgess

I would think Beyonce will be the greatest female artist of all time.

— Mathew Knowles

Don't think about art, just get it done.

— Andy Warhol

I never considered myself a performance artist.

— Agnes Denes

“Art isn't a matter of 'what' but of 'how'.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth.”

— Kirsty Eagar

Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.

— Jack White

The highest form of connecting is art.

— Shira Haas

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

— Albrecht Durer

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

— Robert Barry

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

— Shirley MacLaine

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

— Charlie Parker

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

— Obie Trice

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

— Ira Sachs

“Art is not art if it has a function.”

— Brandon Sanderson