Artist Quotes · Page 192

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

— Joe Cocker

If anything can be art, then anyone can be an artist.

— Abbi Jacobson

Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.

— Ilaiyaraaja

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

— Philip Guston

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

— Nicolas Poussin

“Art is the refreshing source of existence.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

There is nothing new in art except talent.

— Anton Chekhov

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

— Quintilian

“Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.”

— Angelica Hopes

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it…

— Pablo Picasso

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

— Blake Shelton

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact…

— R. B. Kitaj

Artists tend to get this thing called demo-itis, and I'm extremely guilty of that.

— Ari Lennox

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists,…

— Manning Marable

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

— Mary Oliver

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We…

— Richard Bach

“There is a great deal of illusion in a work of art; one could go farther and say that it is illusory…

— thomas mann

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in…

— Graham Sutherland

“He had come abroad to enjoy the Flemish painters and all others; but what fair-tressed saint of Van Eyck or Memling was…

— Henry James

I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes,…

— Bill Plympton

An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way -…

— Skrillex

“When he was about fourteen years of age, Leonardo would have left the fondaco and most likely traveled with an older merchant,…

— Keith J. Devlin

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is where my notoriety comes from right now: from action art.

— Michael Israel

Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists

— Marcel Duchamp

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

— Milford Zornes

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

— Georges Braque

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

— Abbie Cornish

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

— Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

I paint life as I would like it to be,

— Norman Rockwell

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

— Paul Laffoley

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

— Amy Lowell

I've always wanted to make that change from a rapper into an artist.

— Ski Mask the Slump God

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

— Lafcadio Hearn

People will definitely know that my art has something to say.

— KiKi Layne

“...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci”

— Norman Maclean

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

— Soren Kierkegaard