Artist Quotes · Page 82

“The worst thing an artist can have is too much freedom.”

— Magdalena McGuire

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

— Anonymous

I paint or sketch for two, three hours every day. It keeps me sane.

— Vic Reeves

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

— Del Close

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

— Barbara Boxer

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

— Camille Paglia

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

— Frances Harper

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

— Gunter Grass

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

— Robert Genn

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

— Kirsten Dunst

“Life is a beautiful canvas, paint it with passion and diligence. Don't scribble on it with regrets.”

— Priyansha Vashi

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough…

— Claude Monet

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

— Oscar Wilde

“If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art…

— Suzy Kassem

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people…

— Gerald Brenan

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist…

— Sarah Jones

In truth, a label is nothing more than a corporation, and it funds artists. Why couldn't another corporation fund an artist? And…

— Jack Conte

The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be…

— Courtney Love

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears…

— Constantin Brancusi

“Art is central to all our lives, not just the better-off and educated. . . I know that from my own story,…

— Jeanette Winterson

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm…

— Josh Turner

We do have to be a witness to our art.

— David Koechner

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

— Stephanie Seymour

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

— Kesha

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

— Sergei Bongart

Paint stuff and make jam. You're good at doing that.

— Ed Sheeran

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

— Jules Renard

People think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

— Woody Allen

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

— Walter Legge

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

— Virginia Woolf

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

— Donatella Versace

When you break an artist, you learn a lot.

— Scott Borchetta

Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.

— Tibor Kalman

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

— Steve Coogan

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

— Elizabeth Bowen

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

— Caitlin Moran

The young Leonardo was a bit too fiery.

— Leonardo Bonucci