Artist Quotes · Page 67

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

— Karl Friedrich Schinkel

“Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.”

— Rosemarie Osmun

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

— Michael Ealy

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

— Drake

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

— Gustave Flaubert

I was an artist before I got into interiors.

— Gauri Khan

All my works are games, serious game.

— M. C. Escher

I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.

— Cornelia Parker

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of…

— Irshad Manji

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's…

— Frank Gehry

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

— Philip Guston

I like striking and while I'm a mixed martial artist, striking is what I like to do.

— Brad Tavares

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

— Jock Sturges

I'm a martial artist and I want to treat the UFC and MMA as martial arts.

— Renato Moicano

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

— Isaac Mizrahi

Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me…

— Jana Kramer

I think the best advice I would give young artists is to always be working on your craft, because there are so…

— Eric Benet

People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in…

— Garry Winogrand

An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection…

— Reggie Watts

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to…

— Charles Bukowski

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the…

— Pauline Kael

Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is,…

— Alex Cox

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

— Toni Cade Bambara

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

— Nikki Giovanni

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

— Karl Kraus

Merce is my favorite artist in any field,

— Jasper Johns

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

— Robert Fripp

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

— Thornton Wilder

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

— Irving Stone

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

— Antoni Tapies

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

— Arshile Gorky

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

— Steve Martin

I like to paint - I love arts and crafts.

— Jessica Mauboy