Artist Quotes · Page 7

Art is science in the flesh.

— Jean Cocteau

All artists are two-headed calves.

— Truman Capote

Art is the signature of man.

— Anonymous

All art is exploitation.

— Sherman Alexie

This drawing is pretty I think hehe

— Brianna Ramos

Draw what you see.

— Arne Glimcher

Paint ideas, paint thought.

— Howard Pyle

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

— Carmen Ejogo

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

— Robert James Waller

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

— Winston Churchill

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

— Angel Haze

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

— Andy Griffith

There is nothing more artistic than loving people.

— Vincent Van Gogh

An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

— Jean Giraud

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is…

— Jeanette Winterson

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

— Larry Gagosian

“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.”

— Henry Moore

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

— Matt Smith

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

— Robert Reynolds

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

— Francis Bacon

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching…

— E. J. Hughes

The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art.…

— Jorg Immendorff

Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them,…

— Robert Henri

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and…

— Rita Ora

Six months is the most you can ask of any fan in this day and age, with the Internet and all these…

— Drake

“All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her…

— Ellen Klages

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to…

— Sebastian Horsley

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to…

— Henri Matisse

The confident artist is a fool.

— Giorgio Armani

I can't draw right or left-handed!

— Joey Heatherton

I want to be a pan-India artist.

— Shruti Haasan

“I chose Van Gogh.”

— Cheryl Strayed

I have a BFA in illustration.

— Mike Shinoda

I, in the end, make art for myself.

— Anish Kapoor

I paint the walls with his blood.

— DMX

I paint in order not to cry.

— Paul Klee