Artist Quotes · Page 210

I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.

— Jerry Pinkney

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

— Arne Jacobsen

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

— Chuck Close

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

— Andy Warhol

The true artist can only labor con amore.

— Victor Hugo

“As an artist, motive means opportunity”

— Siren Waroe

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

— Robert Ryman

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

— Thomas Jefferson

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does…

— Robin G. Collingwood

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

— George Grosz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough…

— Tom Scholz

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

— Amanda Palmer

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

— Jim Rowe

The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

— Ed Askew

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

— Pierre Alechinsky

Record industry's not so much against artists, but certain people are just wicked people that sit up in the industry who go…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people -…

— El-P

I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever…

— Iggy Azalea

“She was a gypsy, as soon as you unravelled the many layers to her wild spirit she was on her next quest…

— Nikki Rowe

We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up…

— Lori Earley

I have a different experience. My father was a small-businessman. He worked really hard. He printed drapery fabrics on long tables, where…

— Hillary Clinton

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

— Lionel Trilling

“none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.”

— Patti Smith

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

— Rembrandt

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

— Liam Cunningham

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.

— Valentina

“The best of all lost arts is honesty”

— Twain, Mark

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

— William Kentridge

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

— George Bellows

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

— Abbie Cornish

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

— Ruth Asawa

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

— Mya

It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.

— Kirk Franklin

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

— Edouard Manet