Artist Quotes · Page 200

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

— Bill Dedman

With art, your motor sense should be developed at full capacity.

— Ruth Asawa

“It's not Art. And Art is not Design.”

— Chip Kidd

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.

— Devendra Banhart

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

— Alfred Stieglitz

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

— Jason Isbell

If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

— Raphael Soyer

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

— Jackson Pollock

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not…

— David Hockney

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she…

— Fay Wray

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

— Barnett Newman

You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.

— Ollie Johnston

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with…

— Jane Seymour

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

— Samuel Barnett

I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the…

— Bill Watterson

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a…

— Anonymous

“When I was a child, my grandmother used to mix a paste for me of flour and water. Then I would go…

— Norma Cole

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys…

— Jake Owen

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho…

— Kehinde Wiley

The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in…

— Erro

I think every artist's next work will reflect a new chapter in their autobiography. Each album tells a story about where they…

— G-Eazy

I think Amy is a really difficult example. With any artist, none of us understands what it's like having the world's media…

— Nicki Chapman

Not every work of art connects with the audience.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

“In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

The arts are what humanize science and history.

— Danny K. Davis

I want to be a good person first and a good artist second.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

— Grace Hartigan

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

— Margrethe II of Denmark

The art of making art, is putting it together…

— Stephen Sondheim

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

— Susan Sontag

“What is art except being the real estate agent of your own neuroses.”

— Guillaume Morissette

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

— Andrew Lam

“Art does not surpass nature but perfects it.”

— Cervantes

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

— Edvard Munch

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

— Paul Cezanne