Artist Quotes · Page 74

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

— Andrei Codrescu

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

— Rembrandt

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.

— Stevie Jackson

“I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.”

— Patti Smith

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

— Joseph Conrad

I made this in art class, with pen and watercolors

— Aly Johnson

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

— Josh Schwartz

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw…

— Nick Carter

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

— Guy Kawasaki

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

— Issey Miyake

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...

— Bill Hicks

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

— Prince Royce

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

— William Cowper

I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on…

— Ben Schnetzer

I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a…

— Harry Houdini

What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression…

— Georges Braque

“For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or…

— Quentin Blake

Being a young artist, you know that you're not the first and there are a lot of people who have been there…

— Koffee

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there…

— Keith Urban

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.

— Nancy Spero

Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

— David Furnish

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

— Alfred Sisley

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

— Jessie J

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

— Aristotle

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

— Karl Kraus

Experience maketh an artist, not books or academics.

— Joy Mathew

The art of life is to show your hand.

— E. V. Lucas

“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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