Artist Quotes · Page 209

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

— Thelma Golden

“DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Sure,” Picasso replied. “Twenty thousand dollars.”

— Mark Manson

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

— Henri Matisse

Art express our emotions beyond our own language.

— Feona Suñiga

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

— Patti Smith

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

— Ricky Martin

You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.

— Heidi Baker

At my academy, I have a full 20x20 canvas but I don't have any ropes around it and do that for a…

— Tony Ferguson

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

— Philip K. Dick

“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even…

— SonReal

I think one of the big mistakes people make is to have fame as one of their main goals. That is the…

— Hope Sandoval

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

— Francis Bacon

I want to grow as an artist, and I'm taking a step out. I want my music to mature.

— Justin Bieber

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

— Adolf Loos

People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach…

— Charles de Lint

“The creator wrestles with a hard, invisible substance, a substance far superior to him. Even the greatest victor emerges vanquished, because our…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second…

— James Fenton

When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is…

— Arthur Jones

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I…

— Adriana Trigiani

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It…

— Anonymous

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving…

— Anton Chekhov

I’m just so glad that I have other members. If I was a solo artist, I don’t think I would have been…

— Kim Tae-yeon

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

— Jerry Saltz

The artist should always be the student.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

— Bono

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

— Andrew Wyeth

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

— Michael Keaton

Art transcends politics this weekend.

— Barbra Streisand

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.

— Lux Interior

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

— Tavi Gevinson

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

— Chali 2na

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

— J. M. W. Turner

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

— Bill Viola

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

— Asger Jorn

In art one idea is as good as another.

— Willem de Kooning

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

— Bill Griffith