Artist Quotes · Page 188

Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.

— Reed Morano

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

— Oscar Wilde

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

— Will Cotton

Art changes people people change the world.

— John Butler

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

— Andre Malraux

“Compared to art, all other professions are but chores.”

— T.L. Rese

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

— Jonathan Swift

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

— Audrey Niffenegger

If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone's naked. It's not a bad thing.

— Gigi Hadid

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

— Betty Dodson

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

— Seth Godin

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

— Ruth Benedict

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

— Harry Belafonte

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

— Titian

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

— Anonymous

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing…

— Marcel Proust

There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there.…

— Alex Stapleton

People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they…

— T Bone Burnett

There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the…

— Steve Toltz

I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like…

— Neill Blomkamp

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to…

— Gerhard Richter

I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it…

— Gutzon Borglum

To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as…

— Cass McCombs

I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist.

— Lady Sovereign

I believe versatility is key for any artist.

— Tulsi Kumar

Have you done something today to benefit your tomorrow?

— Melody Minagar

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

— Wolf Kahn

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

— Tom Robbins

Well, art shouldn't please everybody.

— Lily Gladstone

I was one of those kids that always drew all the time.

— Kirsten Lepore

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art

— Chinese Proverbs

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

— Laurence Olivier

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Art is a gun and medicine at the same time.”

— Alin Sav

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

— Marc Chagall

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

— Leonardo da Vinci

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

— Marilyn Minter

The essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn.

— Esther Hicks

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

— Aulis Sallinen