Artist Quotes · Page 428

“Murder = Art ... Everyone is artist... we all understand different the word "Artist”

— Deyth Banger

When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.

— Jonathan Majors

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

— Thomas Kinkade

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad…

— Jane Lynch

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

— Victor Hugo

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

— Lee Krasner

A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic…

— Du Yun

“A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing,…

— George MacDonald

Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as…

— Eric Carle

I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have…

— Billy Al Bengston

Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level…

— Richard Hell

I haven't done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based.…

— David Furnish

In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.

— Howard Pyle

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

— Herbert Spencer

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

— Anne Truitt

It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.

— G-Dragon

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

— Dennis Conner

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual…

— Igor Babailov

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

— Claude Monet

“Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected.”

— Nick Hornby

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

— Sarah Snook

It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.

— Armin van Buuren

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

— Hesiod

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

— Ani DiFranco

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

— Barry Hannah

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

— Minor White

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

— Albert Camus

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

— George Santayana

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

— Edward Norton

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

— Adrienne Rich

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life…

— Charlotte Rampling

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

— Lawrence Durrell

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera…

— Nigel Dennis

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

— Le Corbusier