Artist Quotes · Page 230

I'm a martial artist and I want to treat the UFC and MMA as martial arts.

— Renato Moicano

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

— Jock Sturges

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

— Philip Guston

I like striking and while I'm a mixed martial artist, striking is what I like to do.

— Brad Tavares

“...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it…

— Ewan Clayton

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

— Isaac Mizrahi

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you…

— iO Tillett Wright

In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.

— William Henry Jackson

I try to create an image to suit my music. These days, you have to create your own personal brand as an…

— Nina Nesbitt

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an…

— Milo Ventimiglia

“For a moment, I saw that set of paints Elain had once bought me with the extra money she'd saved. The red,…

— Sarah J. Maas

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my…

— Jim Hodges

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't…

— Sol LeWitt

“...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by…

— Sarah Ganz Blyth

Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye…

— Will Ferrell

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's…

— Frank Gehry

“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of…

— Irshad Manji

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

— Bret Hart

Future's a workaholic. That's definitely the most hard-working artist I know.

— Metro Boomin

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

— George Herbert

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

— Kate Bush

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

— John Constable

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

— Alan Rickman

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years…

— Thomas Hoving

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in…

— Georges St-Pierre

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a…

— Mary Cassatt

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

— Eduard Hanslick

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

— Larry McMurtry

Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

— Annie Ilonzeh

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

— Anonymous

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

— Glen Duncan

I feel people can relate to the struggling artist a little more sometimes than the big million-dollar country stars.

— Sam Palladio

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“Nous connaîtrions-nous seulement un peu nous-mêmes, sans les arts? Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? ”

— Gabrielle Roy

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

— Dustin Yellin

Art has a power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

— Sam