Artist Quotes · Page 39

All art is erotic.

— Anonymous

Art is the accomplice of love.

— Remy de Gourmont

Great artists need great clients.

— I. M. Pei

Art is not 'about.' Art is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I am an artist, not a dressmaker.

— Paul Poiret

Be the artist you were born to be.

— Robert H. Schuller

Painting is very interesting.

— Sam Waterston

“You cannot negotiate art.”

— Amit Kalantri

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

— Salman Rushdie

I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.

— Kehinde Wiley

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

— Kurt Cobain

“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

— Peter Shaffer

My mother worked as an artist until she was 96.

— Maye Musk

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

— Kat Graham

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

— Andy Warhol

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Nothing granted the providence to outdo time, and so he determined it was a spiritual lacking and trained harder in prayer.”

— Kajoch

You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.

— Clive Davis

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

— Rachel Morrison

“Communication Is a work of art Some are normally born with it Some may need a chart ”

— Amal Saleh

“Art moves them and they don't know what they've been moved by and they get quite drunk on it.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing…

— Dolores O'Riordan

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the…

— Anonymous

The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They…

— John Ruskin

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link that makes us like god. All you…

— Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look…

— Joni Mitchell

“I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost…

— William Golding

There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of…

— Gerhard Richter

“White-walled once. Red-roofed. But painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature’s palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack”

— Arundhati Roy

Art does not explain.

— Chuck Cannon

Art is a big question mark.

— Marilyn Manson

“Perhaps art is an eye problem…”

— Jeanette Winterson

Art isn't my thing, I'll be honest.

— Wes Streeting

Art is competitive.

— Robert Duvall

I never intended to make art.

— Walt Disney

All Artists are Anarchists.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Every artist was once an amateur”

— Anonymous