Artist Quotes · Page 51

I try to conceal art with art.

— Jean-Philippe Rameau

Art lies because it's social.

— Fernando Pessoa

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

— Courtney Love

We are most artistically caged.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Perhaps art is an eye problem…”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Every artist was once an amateur”

— Anonymous

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

— Jackson Pollock

All Artists are Anarchists.

— George Bernard Shaw

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins

— Gene Youngblood

“The supreme gift of an artist is the knowledge of when to stop.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

— Charlie Rose

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

— Vincente Minnelli

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

— Erwin McManus

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

— Claude Monet

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

— Antoine Bourdelle

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

— Chris Rock

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

— Antony Gormley

We're trying to give back to artists of colour and make the journey for them a little easier.

— Mena Massoud

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

— Quentin Tarantino

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived…

— Iris Murdoch

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to…

— Junot Diaz

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.

— Shaggy

(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in…

— Jean Dubuffet

There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent…

— Audrey Flack

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man,…

— Tom Verlaine

I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry…

— Ice T

I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists,…

— James Elkins

People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days…

— Nicki Minaj

I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem…

— Tina Modotti

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

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

— Wes Streeting

Art is competitive.

— Robert Duvall

I never intended to make art.

— Walt Disney

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

— Gustave Flaubert

Art saved my life.

— Anonymous

I am not a juicy painter.

— Andrew Wyeth

I personally always hated Pop art.

— Peggy Guggenheim

The eye is the best of artists.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson