Artist Quotes · Page 34

All truly great art is propaganda.

— Ann Petry

The arts saved my life.

— Michael K. Williams

Not every artist is a role model.

— Iggy Azalea

I'm confident in my art.

— Kid Cudi

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

— Menander

“An artist is a person first.”

— Chaim Potok

All Children are Artists

— Pablo Picasso

Art is but imitation of nature.

— Vincent Van Gogh

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

— Walter Pater

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

— Desmond Morris

I think all good art is outsider art.

— Scott McClanahan

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

— Dan Simmons

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

— Andre Malraux

Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.

— Winston Churchill

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

— Cyril Connolly

I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value…

— Tobias Forge

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

— Redman

I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made…

— Adrian Dunbar

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

— Alexander Eliot

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

— Robyn

“How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

— Dominic Smith

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent”

— Oscar Wilde

If you're trying to learn how to collect art, the key is getting access to insider opinions, and we pride ourselves on…

— Alexander Gilkes

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do…

— Kenya Barris

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of…

— Jeanette Winterson

With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use -…

— Jackson Pollock

“Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with…

— John Galsworthy

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate…

— Roger Scruton

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked…

— Julia Cameron

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure…

— Leon Battista Alberti

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

— Peter Sotos

I primarily buy art to show it off.

— Charles Saatchi

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

— Robert Wilson

Art is life, plus caprice.

— William Ernest Hocking

“Art is a process, not a product.”

— Anonymous

All artists are crazy.

— Kapil Dev

I love art. It is uplifting.

— Damien Hirst

What is art but the denial of life?

— Fernando Pessoa