Artist Quotes · Page 190

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

— Sara Genn

I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time.

— Daveed Diggs

Buying art is not understanding art.

— Anselm Kiefer

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

— Dan Colen

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

— Kathleen Hanna

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

— Charles Baxter

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

— Joanna Russ

Artistes don't grow old, instead they grow younger.

— Suresh Gopi

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

— Hermann Hesse

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

— Rufus Wainwright

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as…

— Jonathon Keats

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

“In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.

— Ritwik Ghatak

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of…

— Keorapetse Kgositsile

Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories…

— John Dyer Baizley

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked…

— Richard Schmid

Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through…

— Kimon Nicolaides

I feel irrational so confrontational to tell the truth I am getting away with murder it isn't possible to never tell the…

— Papa Roach

I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national…

— Anonymous

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really…

— David Hockney

Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of…

— Hannah Arendt

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what…

— Brandon Boyd

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

— Henri Matisse

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

— Anonymous

Comment what yall think on my drawing I did

— Brianna Ramos

The painting is usually finished before you are.

— Rex Brandt

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

— A. S. Byatt

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

— Frederick Sommer

You cannot play for safety and make art.

— Lucille Clifton

A friend of mine put me in contact with the artist Baaba Maal.

— Ludwig Goransson

As an artist, I do not want to limit my skills to one medium alone.

— Javed Ali

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

— Diego Rivera

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

— Christopher Ricks

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

— David Coverdale

LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.

— Elvis Mitchell