Artist Quotes · Page 79

My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

— Taika Waititi

“Art is a side product of a perfect frendship or the lack of it...”

— Mykyta Isagulov

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

— David Byrne

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

— Terence Koh

The most important thing an artist can discover is a love of process.

— Kody Chamberlain

“~Paint a pretty picture, it takes one to make it real...”

— Anonymous

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

— Christo

I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.

— Laurie Simmons

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects…

— Michael Ondaatje

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

— Joe Torre

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

— Marilynne Robinson

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

— James Whistler

“The art of the saints is the ability to draw good out of every situation, no matter how bitter or painful.”

— Marc Foley

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

— Oscar Wilde

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth…

— Anna Deavere Smith

“In his landscapes, Alex expresses the totality of everything in the universe. At the same time, within each leaf, each drop of…

— Anonymous

My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World…

— David Salle

The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never…

— Theo van Doesburg

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies…

— Thomas Gainsborough

It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people,…

— Shusha Guppy

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why…

— Pat Steir

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

— Robert Longo

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

— Jean Paul

Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

— MaryAnn F. Kohl

God and other artists are always a little obscure…

— Oscar Wilde

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

— Peter Frampton

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

— Franz Kline

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

— John Kurtz

I've grown as an artist, as a person, as a songwriter.

— Maisie Peters

Well, for one I really feel that we should protect Black art.

— Rich Homie Quan

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

— Nick Cave

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

— Mark Rothko

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

— Edward Ruscha

“What is art, if not the mind materialized?”

— Alistair Cross

I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.

— Maria Callas