Artist Quotes · Page 78

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

— Bishop Briggs

When one is painting one does not think.

— Raphael

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

— Elmer Rice

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

— Walter Annenberg

Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

— Scott Hutchins

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

— Thomas Carlyle

I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist.

— Hozier

I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement…

— Bryson Tiller

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to…

— Arthur Boyd

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you…

— Rokia Traore

I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also love bells…

— Kelsea Ballerini

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

— Banksy

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is…

— Banks

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's…

— Ken Danby

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

— Jenova Chen

At the end of the day, when people say, 'Oh, she's an industry plant,' I'm like, 'No, I just have representation, like…

— Clairo

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives…

— John Green

“The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the…

— David Bayles

“Behren's work resists easy classification. It is part expedition journal, part museum installation, part allegorical theatre. At the centre of the evolving…

— Christina Jansen

I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I…

— Marc Jacobs

It's not that I don't want to, it's just that there's no money in it. By that I mean the way the…

— John Landis

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach…

— Henry Austin Dobson

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the…

— Leon Battista Alberti

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

— Victor Hugo

As an artist, I really just want to do everything.

— Karol G

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

— George R. R. Martin

I like to keep some coloring tools around to draw vistas.

— Queen Latifah

English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

— John Ruskin

To draw something is to try to capture it forever.

— Cassandra Clare

There's an instant gratification to performance art.

— Rachel Zegler

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

— Abbas Kiarostami

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

— Andre Gide

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

— Zanele Muholi

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.

— Agathon

“It’s art. If you’re looking at it, it’s working.”

— Max Gladstone

Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.

— Mary Rakow

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas”

— John Green

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

— Gustave Flaubert