Artist Quotes · Page 310

“To visit a museum is fine, to be a museum piece is terrible! - Gioconda and Si-Ya-U ”

— Nâzım Hikmet

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

— Peter Max

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

— Chantal Joffe

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow…

— Talib Kweli

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

— Bill Ayers

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good…

— Josh Peck

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

— Chris Zylka

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

— Chuck D

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them…

— Christo

I don't consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them.…

— Landon Metz

I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist…

— Nancy Spero

I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art…

— Banksy

There is such opacity within the art market. There's also an abundance of fraud and misrepresented goods, which leads to mistrust between…

— Alexander Gilkes

The art was just a way of hooking people in, saying: "Hey, maybe there's something cool about the tenant meeting. If the…

— Eric Drooker

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they…

— Pink

I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the…

— Robert Bateman

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.”

— Matthew Gallaway

I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.

— Samoa Joe

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method…

— Claude Monet

No artist gets work through an agency and it's only working artists who keep getting more work.

— Sana Khan

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”

— Steven Magee

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest…

— Thomas King

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the…

— Common

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

— Antony Gormley

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

— Henri Matisse

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

— Dasha Zhukova

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

— Mike Svob

“O you who honor art and science both, who are these souls whose dignity has kept their way of being, separate from…

— Dante Canto IV Inferno

The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.

— Armand Trousseau

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

— Brandi Carlile

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing… Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

— Todd Haynes

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Ill draw you a picture, a picture with a twist. Ill draw it with a razor blade. Ill draw it on my…

— Amber

I really enjoy house painting - especially the trim work. People think I'm crazy, but it's more fun than using the roller…

— James Doohan