Artist Quotes · Page 85

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

— Martin Kippenberger

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

— Benjamin Franklin

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I am an artiste in a free world, I am supposed to raise questions.

— Richa Chadha

Inclusivity is extremely important in any art form.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

— John Mellencamp

What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions.

— Muriel Barbery

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

— Kenneth Noland

Okay so I made this I while ago and somehow it got on the internet! I MADE THIS ON PAINT!!! I should…

— James Merrow

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

— Roger Scruton

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what…

— Nick Cave

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

— Pierre Berton

You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

— Anohni

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about…

— Rachael Price

“In 1913, trying desperately to liberate art from the ballast of the representational world, I sought refuge in the form of the square.”

— Kasimir Malevich

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect…

— Salvador Dali

And so to me, I've always thought the kinds of fans that I want is the kind of fan that I am,…

— Taylor Goldsmith

It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,…

— James Elkins

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand,…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

In the beginning, the energy involved to create came from my reaction to the work of other artists. The force behind this…

— Georg Baselitz

The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as…

— Arthur Koestler

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high…

— Raymond Chandler

It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for…

— Ed Kowalczyk

“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings…

— Robert Hughes

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

— Piet Mondrian

All works of art should begin... at the end.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

— H. L. Mencken

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

— Robert Motherwell

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

— Wyndham Lewis

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

— Nafessa Williams

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

— Robert Smithson

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

— Marina Abramovic

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

— Pablo Picasso

“When it comes to art and culture, I like anything that is good.”

— John Seed

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

— Lawren Harris

“If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

— Maurizio Cattelan

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

— Michael Jackson

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

— Pharrell Williams

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

— William Cowper