Artist Quotes · Page 19

I'll be the best in the world again

— Zaini Milan

Art can only be taught by artists.

— Ruth Asawa

Art is a journey of discovery.

— John Paul Caponigro

Art never lies, I believe.

— Deborah Solomon

I want paint to work as flesh.

— Lucian Freud

“Art to me is a question mark.”

— Marilyn Manson

Great artists need great clients.

— I. M. Pei

Art is not 'about.' Art is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

— Balthus

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

— Washington Allston

I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.

— Bern Will Brown

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

— Willem de Kooning

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

— Henry David Thoreau

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

— Noel Coward

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

— Roger Ebert

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

— Kate Chopin

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

— Brad Holland

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

— Big Freedia

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

— Osamu Dazai

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

— Madonna Ciccone

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of…

— Esaias Tegner

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

— Ben Nicholson

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I…

— Mark Edward

Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary,…

— Luis Gonzalez

“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Without intermediate artists, music is what "American Idol" decides is great or made by the very poor, because Sharon Osbourne's made everything…

— Al Jourgensen

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance,…

— John Cena

The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?'…

— Grace Slick

I can't say if I have influenced anything really, maybe a few artists but at the end of the day we are…

— Mick Harris

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn…

— Walter J. Phillips

I am an artist, not a dressmaker.

— Paul Poiret

Be the artist you were born to be.

— Robert H. Schuller

Painting is very interesting.

— Sam Waterston

“You cannot negotiate art.”

— Amit Kalantri

Art is a big question mark.

— Marilyn Manson

Art does not explain.

— Chuck Cannon

You don't make art, you find it

— Anonymous

Sex and art are the same thing.

— Pablo Picasso