Artist Quotes · Page 217

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

— Holly Johnson

I feel like polarising art is always the best.

— Myha'la

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

— Brian Koppelman

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

— Marina Keegan

I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.

— Jared Leto

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

— Akira Kurosawa

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

— Marianne Moore

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

— Odilon Redon

I started out being a cartoonist at school, but I went to CalArts to study.

— Butch Hartman

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

— Wayne Thiebaud

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

— Robert Genn

“The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it…

— Arnold Bennett

If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

— Robert Henri

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

— John Cage

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some…

— Jim Rowe

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works…

— David Archuleta

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the…

— John Banville

Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming…

— Fernando Araujo Perdomo

I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and…

— Andy Serkis

In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was…

— Paula McLain

What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what…

— Jim Rowe

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your…

— Jonathan Lethem

Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.

— Michelangelo

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

— Oscar Wilde

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm not an artist I'm a survivor, my artistry helps me breathe.

— Jeremy Limn

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

— Robert Genn

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

— Barnett Newman

Tupac is my favorite artist, and he had mad style.

— Lewis Hamilton

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

— Wendell Pierce

A heavy heart produces the finest art.

— Anonymous

The truly original artist invents his own signs.

— Henri Matisse

It's all about the art, really, at the end of the day.

— Borns

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

— Jose Clemente Orozco

It's hard to make great art when you've got too much pressure.

— Charles Kelley

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

— Anonymous