Artist Quotes · Page 212

When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

— Terri Windling

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

— Larry Rivers

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

— Aby Rosen

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

— Ansel Adams

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

— Paul Klee

When I was a kid, I always used to paint. I like to draw.

— Marky Ramone

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

— Khalil Gibran

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.

— William Shakespeare

“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”

— Toni Cade Bambara

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

— Donald Barthelme

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen…

— Don DeLillo

I got rid of Warlock's lightning bolt because... it was a real pain to draw.

— Jim Starlin

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

— Gerald Brenan

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

— Mark Akenside

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

— John F. Kennedy

“Bad art, for Niemeyer, was not just that which promotes immorality, but, in an even deeper sense, promotes unreality—the fantasy that leaves…

— Gregory Wolfe

“Art for Art’s Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along…

— Lara Biyuts

“Only someone who doesn’t understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can’t be…

— Kevin Smith

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors…

— Jerry Saltz

Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what…

— John Singer Sargent

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of…

— Marina Abramovic

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only…

— Seth Godin

Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves…

— Jerry Saltz

I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.

— Kelsea Ballerini

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

the truth is artistically fallacious.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.

— Charles M. Schulz

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

— Shia LaBeouf

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.

— Alex Turner

“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. ”

— Henry David Thoreau

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

— George Crabbe

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.

— Pablo Picasso

“You become an artist once you start saying that you are an artist”

— Steven Pressfield

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

— Seth Godin

ART SHOULD COMFORT THE DISTURBED & DISTURB THE COMFORTABLE

— SAMIR SHAH

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

— Oscar Wilde

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.”

— Eugene Ionesco