Artist Quotes · Page 206

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

— Damien Hirst

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

— Lady Gaga

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

— Kurt Cobain

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

— C. S. Lewis

“Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.”

— Andy Warhol

When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!'

— Scott Borchetta

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown…

— Aleksa Palladino

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make…

— John Porcellino

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

— Fernando Pessoa

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

— Adolph Gottlieb

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

— Mario Botta

I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since…

— Mark Kostabi

I actually believe that this Trump phenomenon, which has affected many of us, is going to accelerate the use of art for…

— Agnes Gund

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of…

— Harvey Pekar

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

“If I can produce only one beautiful work of art I shall be able to rob malice of its venom, and cowardice…

— Oscar Wilde

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities…

— Alberto Giacometti

“The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas stove somebody…

— Miles Davis

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

— Diane Paulus

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

— Clement Greenberg

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

— Larry Kramer

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

— Thomas Merton

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

— Raymond Chandler

I'm working to be a complete mixed martial artist.

— Brandon Moreno

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

— Robert Henri

To be an artist is to doubt yourself and try harder.

— Jamie Hewlett

You should draw me as a cartoon as a cartoon, say hello.

— Dot Dot Curve

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

— Vic Mensa

When you create art, the world has to wait.

— Will Smith

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

— Paul Robeson

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

— Lawrence Jackson

I painted sets before I ever performed.

— Christopher Guest

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

— Andrei Tarkovsky