Artist Quotes · Page 69

Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.

— Akira Toriyama

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

— Anonymous

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

— Chuck D

I sketch and paint a lot, but that's only for myself.

— Rohit Saraf

“When nature fails, we turn to art.”

— Umberto Eco

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

— Ai Weiwei

I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.

— John Tiffany

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

— Julien Torma

I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really…

— Drumma Boy

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

— Cheryl Richardson

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

— Questlove

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

— Mark Rothko

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

— Hannah Gadsby

“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the…

— Philip Schultz

My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working…

— Clive Davis

I'm a Banksy fan. I'm also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual…

— Killer Mike

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done,…

— Albrecht Durer

I think that the most effective social protest that any artist can do would be things that come naturally and feel obvious.…

— John Flansburgh

I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade…

— Hoodie Allen

I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all…

— Eric Fischl

One of my great frustrations for 35 years at the paper was the fact I couldn't play a record for the reader…

— Robert Hilburn

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“In the arts," James wrote, "feeling is always meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

— Socrates

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

— Max Beerbohm

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

— Claude Debussy

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

— W. H. Auden

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

— William Herschel

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

— Desmond Morris

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

— Walter Pater

As an artist, I feel you can have a debut just once.

— Parvathy

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

— Dan Simmons

I think all good art is outsider art.

— Scott McClanahan

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

— Andre Malraux

Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.

— Winston Churchill

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

— Cyril Connolly

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

— Pablo Picasso