Artist Quotes · Page 6

You are the artist and the art.

— Bryant H. McGill

“Art is not a sack race.”

— Charles Baxter

Art needs to stand for something.

— Ai Weiwei

If you can't paint, paint Big.

— Audrey Flack

“Only suffering grows big artists.”

— Irving Stone

I had had no art training.

— Dorothy Malone

The big art is our life.

— Mary Caroline Richards

Every human being is an artist

— Joseph Beuys

My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

— Taika Waititi

Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.

— Agathon

“It’s art. If you’re looking at it, it’s working.”

— Max Gladstone

Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.

— Mary Rakow

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

— Zanele Muholi

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

— Andre Gide

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

What's a martial artist? Someone who respects his opponent.

— Curtis Blaydes

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

— Paul Robeson

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

— William Blake

As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.

— Anthony Ramos

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

— Philip Guston

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

— Mark Foster

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

— Tennessee Williams

I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my…

— Maddie Ziegler

“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is…

— Isaac Asimov

Being honest in the spotlight is the worst idea . But I do like when artists are honest and are able to…

— Rita Ackermann

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity,…

— Jean Houston

I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed…

— Pierre Huyghe

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an…

— Francis Schaeffer

I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media?…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of…

— Kehinde Wiley

Art transcends cultural boundaries.

— Thomas Kinkade

I'm an artist through and through.

— Amanda Seales

Art is a protest against death.

— Audrey Flack

Art and accident are one.

— Frederick Sommer

“If it doesn't hurt It isn't art”

— Tahirih May Milne

Sometimes art imitates life.

— Michael Douglas

In art, the best is good enough.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

— Iris Murdoch