Artist Quotes · Page 57

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

— Angela Carter

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

— Robert Henri

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

— Pablo Picasso

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

— Mark Hoppus

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

— Cyril Connolly

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

— Daniel Clowes

There is no art when one does something without intention.

— Duke Ellington

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

— Keith Urban

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

— Isaac Hanson

You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.

— Pharoahe Monch

“And when I finished my story, Nesta merely stared at me for a long while before asking me to teach her how…

— Sarah J. Maas

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point…

— Paul Klee

For our Spring 2015 collection, I was inspired by the spirit of the artist Francoise Gilot.

— Tory Burch

“The artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.”

— Leo Tolstoy

I don't want to be a gay or a straight artist. I don't make gay records - I make records.

— Darren Hayes

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest…

— Jerry Saltz

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in…

— Abbi Jacobson

If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive…

— Robin Gibb

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when…

— William Gaddis

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was…

— Janet Flanner

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any…

— Vin Diesel

I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is…

— Philip Taaffe

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply…

— Pablo Picasso

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

— Paul Robeson

My passion definitely lies in the arts.

— Quincy Brown

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.

— Anonymous

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

— Alexander Pope

What happened in my life made me a better artist.

— Nicky Jam

I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.

— Henri Matisse

The days of an artist receiving airplay as a new act are gone.

— Porter Wagoner

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

— Albert Ellis

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

— Simone Weil

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

— Max Cannon

I love to draw people's faces. I do that all the time.

— Mischa Barton

Art is love and it covers. It sheilds.

— Chrisette Michele

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

— Jean Cocteau

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

— Jonathan Evison