Artist Quotes · Page 23

All art is a confession.

— Gaston Lachaise

One never paints violently enough.

— Eugene Delacroix

Pop art is about liking things.

— Andy Warhol

Propaganda rarely makes good art.

— Susan Sutherland Isaacs

I want to draw something like this

— Anonymous

Change art to include yourself.

— Joseph Kosuth

Life imitates art and back around.

— Statik Selektah

There is no best anything in art.

— Jeff Daniels

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

— Kehinde Wiley

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

— Marilyn Manson

The power of art can open our minds.

— Edmund Capon

“Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm Kiss the artist, and Jason the father. It's my job.

— Jadakiss

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

— Cee Lo Green

“Batman’s cape would make a great canvas for a cave painting.”

— Jarod Kintz

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

— Dave Davies

They say life is like art and the world is your canvas, whether your picture be good or bad it will always…

— Anonymous

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

— Warren MacKenzie

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

— Virgil Abloh

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

— Nate Lowman

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit…

— Louis Riel

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

— Arthur Wesley Dow

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

— Gene Black

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

— Jerry Harrison

You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same…

— Wale

This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life…

— Anne Frasier

Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is,…

— James Whistler

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals.…

— Anonymous

Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my…

— Stephen Hough

“Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

My grandmother was an artist and did enameling. She had a little apartment, and in her tiny little kitchen, she had a…

— Jennifer Meyer

Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully…

— Adrien Brody

Great art inspires great art.

— Andrew Stanton

Paint faster than you can think.

— Alex Katz

My Paintings are Battles.

— Georg Baselitz

An artist is an explorer.

— Henri Matisse

The best artists are gone now.

— Johnny Winter

Art is man determined to die sane.

— Bernard DeVoto

I'm not the average artist.

— DMX

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

— Stephen Tobolowsky