Artist Quotes · Page 83

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

— Amit Kalantri

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of

— Tommy Shaw

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

— Gloria Trevi

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

— Graham Hill

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

— Frida Kahlo

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

— Heart Evangelista

I want my art to help people reimagine God.

— Alex Grey

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

— Franz Werfel

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

— Andre Holland

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

— Brian Selznick

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

— Sol LeWitt

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

— Liza Campbell

“I draw a girl without a face, drawing somebody else’s face onto her own reflection.”

— Akemi Dawn Bowman

“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked…

— Christian Bobin

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

— Guy Berryman

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another…

— Vija Celmins

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think…

— Maya Hawke

I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist...…

— Mark Kostabi

I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south…

— Benny Blanco

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion…

— Octavio Paz

“I’ll go to church if you cut my hair tomorrow. But then you have to let me paint your portrait sometime.” “You…

— Suzanne Young

Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award…

— Paul Smith

What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing…

— Nick Heyward

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

— Henry Fuseli

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

— Carl Andre

If an artiste doesn't turn up on the sets on time, I will lose my cool.

— Jagapathi Babu

“A bad magician never gets the good props.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

— Paul Cezanne

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

— Jean Dubuffet

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

— Paul Simonon

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

— Robert Browning

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

— Robert Longo

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

— Plato

As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

— Vijay Sethupathi

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

— Austin O'Malley

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

— Eli Broad

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

— Theodor Adorno