Artist Quotes · Page 66

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

— Barnett Newman

Someone name something for me to draw...I'm bored. name anything idc

— Ali

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

— Burt Young

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

— Cindy Sherman

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

— Eduardo Chillida

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.

— Rene Angelil

I think good art does come from a dark place.

— Rick Springfield

Stories of life remain the same, just change the face of artists

— Mak_786

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a…

— Mary Cassatt

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

— Kate Bush

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

Future's a workaholic. That's definitely the most hard-working artist I know.

— Metro Boomin

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

— Bret Hart

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

— George Herbert

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

— John Constable

In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.

— William Henry Jackson

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to…

— Chloe Wise

I realized I couldn't get bookings as a performing artist on the road, as it were, I could not make a living…

— Van Dyke Parks

All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in…

— Albert Schweitzer

Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition…

— Semir Zeki

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like…

— Millard Drexler

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of…

— Yehuda Amichai

“All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art,…

— Stella Gibbons

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant,…

— Joy Williams

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

— Vinny Guadagnino

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

— Anonymous

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

— Mark Rothko

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

— Robert Henri

The more people who look at great art, the better for our culture.

— Larry Gagosian

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

— Anton Chekhov

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

— George Bernard Shaw

Drawing, Drawing, Drawing...a blur of Crayons and giggles...

— Eric Nickel

No artist wants to be perceived as a regurgitator.

— Saul Bass

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

— Rembrandt

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

— Francis Schaeffer

Anything can be art but very little is good art.

— Grayson Perry

Since I am an artist, I know the media can pick you apart.

— Raheem DeVaughn

When I first moved to New York, you know, I was a starving artist.

— Ariana DeBose

“Il n’y a pas d’art pessimiste… L’art affirme.”

— Nietzsche

The moment you stop becoming an artist, you kind of trade it all in.

— John Waite