Artist Quotes · Page 87

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

— Lynn Johnston

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

— Paul McCartney

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

— Anonymous

I like to draw with silver it comes out red MAGIC?

— Anonymous

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

— Lenora Crichlow

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

— Ad Reinhardt

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

— Paul Rand

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.

— Jared Leto

Artists deserve more than a check cut in half eight times by publishers.

— Jack Conte

“I decide that the craziest, strangest, most unbelievable thing I could ever draw is me doing something right.”

— Lynda Mullaly Hunt

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

— Kanye West

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

— Pharrell Williams

Life is beautiful like a painting. It is us who choose what color to use in order to make it memorable and…

— Aga La Tina

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's…

— Jimi Hendrix

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it…

— Nhat Hanh

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about…

— Jeff Koons

There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of…

— Gerhard Richter

“I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost…

— William Golding

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look…

— Joni Mitchell

We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link that makes us like god. All you…

— Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey

I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that…

— Blixa Bargeld

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them…

— Arca

I kind of rode this weird line between athlete and artist. It was a little different because most of the athletes were…

— Terry Crews

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

— Angela Robinson

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

— Jean Helion

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

— Rumi

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

— Mac Miller

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

— Yann Martel

Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.

— Jeremiah Brent

“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”

— Constantin Stanislavski

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.

— Robert Smithson

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

— Sid Sriram

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

— Ad Reinhardt

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

— Mason Cooley

Every man is a painter and the sculptor of his own life.

— Pacifiersucker

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

— Rembrandt