Artist Quotes · Page 213

“To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.”

— Stacey T. Hunt

“Mother nature is the greatest painter.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

— Bob Ross

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

— Paul Haggis

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

— Zac Efron

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Make life an art rather than art from life.

— David Gilmour

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

— Steven Herrick

I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.

— Virgil Abloh

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

— Joshua Reynolds

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

— Henri Matisse

I'm grateful for the time, energy, creativity and effort each artist has brought to the project to further the mission of The…

— Topaz Page-Green

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

— F. Gary Gray

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

— Iris Murdoch

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

— Malcolm Mclaren

The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it…

— Lynda Resnick

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless,…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair. But the painting has…

— Donna Tartt

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from…

— Robert Henri

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves…

— Horace

I think, for an artist, when you're drawing somebody who actually exists, it's a much steeper critical curve, as there is an…

— Samoa Joe

I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I…

— Celine Dion

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here…

— Ali Banisadr

I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms,…

— M. C. Escher

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

— Ouida

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

— Spider Robinson

You can paint your soul with any medium.

— Jeet Aulakh

In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.

— Kiki Smith

I've focused very intensely on finding who I am as an artist.

— Sky Blu

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

— M. F. Husain

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

— Jean Cocteau

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

— James Elkins

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

— William Blake

Art is both creation and recreation.

— Lin Yutang

“Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece.”

— William S. Burroughs

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

— Auguste Rodin

Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?

— Pat Morita

“The art in question is much more about open communications.”

— Pearl Zhu

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

— Al Jourgensen

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

— Franz Liszt