Artist Quotes · Page 80

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

— Lazaro Hernandez

“I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.”

— Robert Dowling

It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it.

— Dawn Richard

I love painting and have a need to do it.

— Emma Watson

“He was like a living, breathing painting on an all-male canvas.”

— Karina Halle

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

— Josh Silver

The social aspect of being an artist has always made me uncomfortable.

— Charles Ray

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

— Pablo Picasso

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

— Moises Arias

My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we…

— Grace Gummer

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

— Aya Cash

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

— Omari Hardwick

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon…

— Rudolph Valentino

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

— Eugene Ionesco

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in…

— Jean-Luc Godard

My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the…

— Joseph Pisani

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work…

— Christo

Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love…

— Kehinde Wiley

The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary…

— Mary Carroll Nelson

It's kinda hard to date as an artist because you're all over the place, and your significant other may seem jealous, depending…

— Justine Skye

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced.…

— Cy Twombly

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as…

— Mervyn Levy

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

— Anonymous

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

— Philip Guston

The arts help complete a person. I truly believe that.

— Henry Winkler

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

— Zhang Xiaogang

“I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or you could suck it.”

— Charlie Cochet

“Only in art was cheerful condemned.”

— Nicki Salcedo

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

— Josef Albers

I tried to teach myself to draw anime, but I was so bad.

— Takashi Murakami

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

— Tony Curtis

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

— Marina Abramovic

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

— Ross Lynch

“The art is in the idea, not the object.”

— Anonymous

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

— Bob Ross

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

— Jacob Epstein

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

— Yayoi Kusama