Artist Quotes · Page 204

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

— Robert Holden

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

— John Ruskin

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

— William Hogarth

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

— Paul Cezanne

Art makes people smile, brings people together.

— Yusaku Maezawa

A true artist is always out of his time.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

— Egon Schiele

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

— David Bayles

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

— James Bay

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

— Anton Chekhov

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

— Maurice Sendak

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

— Kelly Rowland

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

— Michael Ondaatje

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

— Maxwell Perkins

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

— John Ruskin

It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion.

— Jaime King

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or…

— Bruno Mars

Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or…

— Robert Genn

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all…

— Steven Pressfield

My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits…

— Dana Schutz

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living…

— Ani DiFranco

This morning I got up early and I was glazing the paintings and they just looked so beautiful. I had a private…

— Caio Fonseca

Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

— Michael Bastian

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

— Kazimir Malevich

Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.

— Ziad Doueiri

Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

We must have belief in BAME artists and have total trust in their work.

— Paterson Joseph

“Individuality is the highest, deepest form of art.”

— Gregor Collins

“Artists see the invisible before anyone else.”

— Donna Goddard

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

— Thomas Nashe

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

— Candice Olson

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

— Syd Barrett

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

— Jackie Cooper

I love art, but I'm also interested in people's stories.

— Ginevra Elkann

“Even a barn looks better when it's painted”

— David O. McKay

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

— Mark Rothko

My life will be a masterpiece to me... For I intend to paint it.

— Cv Pillay

“Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching”

— Neville Weston