Artist Quotes · Page 201

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

— Anonymous

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

— Samuel Butler

I hate art as a be-all and an end-all.

— Leo Sayer

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

— Maria Callas

I like to paint mountain ranges that are just curved blobs.

— Eva Victor

“And in the end, children; Art prevailed over the cruel, dumb-fuckers.”

— Fred Babb

The artist...is the voice of the people.

— Alice Walker

As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

— Georg Baselitz

“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic,…

— Don Winslow

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

— Jim James

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing…

— Billy Connolly

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it…

— Mahesh Bhatt

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

My stepfather was in the navy, so I got to know a side of Chile that is not what you would expect…

— Sebastian Lelio

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

— Arthur Jones

All I ever wanted to be was an artist, and now I'm an artist with an album of the year.

— Raye

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is…

— Kehinde Wiley

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made…

— Alberto Giacometti

You really see that the art world bends over for Hollywood sometimes, in this way that is really grotesque, and the other…

— Thomas McDonell

Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves,…

— Ben Eine

When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes or stare into the…

— Dave Gibbons

That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the…

— Tyrone Guthrie

I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is…

— Justin Broadrick

You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of…

— Hamish Linklater

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

— Ivan Turgenev

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

— Austin O'Malley

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.

— Walter Savage Landor

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

— Robert Breault

Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.

— John Kricfalusi

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

— Brian Selznick

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

— John Edgar Park

“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”

— Pablo Piccasso

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

— Rita Mae Brown

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

— Ovid

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

— Fra Angelico

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

— Vanessa Mae

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

— Brion Gysin

“Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth.”

— Nam Le