Artist Quotes · Page 29

Im an artist of my own story

— Kathy

The highest art is artlessness.

— Francis Alexander Durivage

I made this in art class(:

— SIMBA

The artist is always beginning.

— Ezra Pound

I draw whatever hits me.

— Matthew Ashford

“Canst paint a doleful cry?”

— Thomas Kyd

Van Gogh was impulsive.

— Joni Mitchell

I wish to die painting.

— Paul Cezanne

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

— Georg Baselitz

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

— Marina Abramovic

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

— Arshile Gorky

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

— Steve Martin

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

— Chuck D

“When nature fails, we turn to art.”

— Umberto Eco

I sketch and paint a lot, but that's only for myself.

— Rohit Saraf

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

— Gustave Flaubert

“With the holy touch of art, human life has become less lonely and more esthetical!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

— Francis Bacon

“Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is…

— Giacomo Casanova

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining,…

— Willa Cather

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I…

— Arshile Gorky

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that,…

— Adam Smith

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools.…

— David Hockney

“The soft voice of a piccolo glided through the airy expanse of a small, brightly furnished room. A tall painter, dark locks…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is…

— Wolfgang Laib

Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can…

— Eli Siegel

It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and…

— Stephanie Mills

How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that…

— Matt Bomer

'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.

— Fred Armisen

Last drawing of the day

— Slowly_fading

Just two words: a masterpiece.

— Joe DiMaggio

Being an artist is a lifestyle.

— Wayne White

I will not make anymore boring art.

— John Baldessari

It's clever, but is it Art?

— Rudyard Kipling

Art cannot be above the battle.

— Hyman Taubman

Art is nothing; it's a way.

— Elbert Hubbard