Artist Quotes · Page 75

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

— Barbara Kruger

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

— Jean Giraud

What's a martial artist? Someone who respects his opponent.

— Curtis Blaydes

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

I'm dedicating myself to an art form that takes a lifetime to master.

— Cody Fern

“I make art like I make love—slowly, so I get the most for my money.”

— Jarod Kintz

“If art can never offer levity, then I'll have none of it!”

— Annette (Schrab) Clark

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

— Edward Hopper

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

— Tulisa

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do…

— Paul Emsley

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular -…

— Jeffrey Deitch

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

— Andy Grammer

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

— W. Somerset Maugham

When I was five, six, I drew myself as a cat a lot, because I was obsessed with cats. And then, as…

— Lisa Hanawalt

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated…

— Alan Bennett

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that.…

— Andrew Wyeth

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware…

— Camille Paglia

I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you…

— Laurel Nakadate

I used to produce years ago when I feel like. I produced myself, Bounty Killer. That was the first set. Then I…

— Lady Saw

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as…

— Terry Richardson

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a…

— Pablo Picasso

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery

— Francis Bacon Sr

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

— Madonna Ciccone

I wouldn't be ashamed to sell my own art for a lot of money.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

— Paul McGann

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

— Robert Schumann

“Under wage labor, the art advances, the artisan declines.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

— Kiki Smith

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

— David Hume

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

— Erwin McManus

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

— Madeleine L'Engle

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

— Paul Valery

A good piece of art raises questions.

— Rebecca Hall

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

— Mr. Brainwash

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

— Al Alvarez

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

— Albert Camus