Artist Quotes · Page 76

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

— Henri Matisse

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

— Ben Jonson

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

— William Hazlitt

Rumours of me being Banksy are greatly exaggerated. We are all Banksy.

— Robert Del Naja

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Art is anything you can get away with.

— Marshall McLuhan

“The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

— Pablo Picasso

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

— Natasha Rothwell

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Art is the weapon Your imagination is the ammunition Stay dirty, and stay dangerous Create and destroy as you see fit”

— Gerard Way

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

— Gloria Steinem

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

— Marilyn Manson

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends…

— Toyin Odutola

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in…

— H. L. Mencken

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is…

— Amiri Baraka

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.'…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society…

— Herbert Read

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And…

— Glen Hansard

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I…

— Frank Gehry

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way…

— Willem de Kooning

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

— Jonathan Shapiro

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw.

— Maurice Sendak

The great artist takes what he needs.

— Kenneth Clark

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

— Barnett Newman

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

— Tadao Ando

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

— Henri Matisse

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

— Shirley MacLaine

Like books, artists have their fates.

— Norbert Lynton

If you're a true artist you have to fulfill yourself.

— Demond Wilson

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

— Barnett Newman

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

— Michael Winner

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

My drawing rate thumbs up for good thumbs down for dont like

— Marshall Lee

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

— Jerry Seinfeld

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

— Marina Abramovic