Artist Quotes · Page 43

Art needs to stand for something.

— Ai Weiwei

“Art is not a sack race.”

— Charles Baxter

If you can't paint, paint Big.

— Audrey Flack

“Only suffering grows big artists.”

— Irving Stone

The big art is our life.

— Mary Caroline Richards

I had had no art training.

— Dorothy Malone

Art transcends cultural boundaries.

— Thomas Kinkade

Every human being is an artist

— Joseph Beuys

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.

— Eva Hesse

I'm a West Coast ratchet L.A. artist.

— Blueface

“It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.”

— James Joyce

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

— Adriana Trigiani

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

— Salvador de Madariaga

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

— Edgar Degas

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

— T Bone Burnett

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

— F. Murray Abraham

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful…

— Toni Morrison

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

— Ben Watt

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

— Nelson Shanks

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

— Marina Abramovic

I think great art poses questions and doesn't necessarily give answers and solutions - that's not what I'm trying to do.

— Kano

I'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists.

— Donnis

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

— Balthus

Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of…

— Roman Genn

How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week,…

— Andy Warhol

“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and…

— Walter Isaacson

Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living…

— William Webb

You can see girls getting too excited and they start crying or worse. In a lot of these countries they don't get…

— Niall Horan

There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each…

— Harold Pinter

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and…

— Boris Pasternak

Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can…

— Walter J. Phillips

I'm an artist through and through.

— Amanda Seales

I don't enjoy art.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

I think your life informs your art.

— Sheryl Crow

Art is basically entertainment.

— Yasumasa Morimura

When art wins, everyone wins.

— Jerry Saltz

The artist is justified by his art.

— Lewis Foreman Day

I will keep painting until I die.

— Yayoi Kusama

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

— Grayson Perry