Artist Quotes · Page 95

“I’m convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power.”

— Veronika Carnaby

There is nothing that art cannot express.

— Oscar Wilde

“My art will now only consist of she-wolf elbows.”

— Ilze Lipins

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

— Agnes Martin

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

— Lady Gaga

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

— Chris Ware

“How like art is what's left over after life.”

— william gass

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

— Grandma Moses

“It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with he frame than with the artwork itself.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums,

— Banksy

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

— Rei Kawakubo

I haven't sold one painting. I have either given them as gifts or just kept them. It's like babies you know. It's,…

— Shavo Odadjian

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

— David Byrne

Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

— Mark Linkous

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

— Michelangelo

People who aren't artists don't think about creativity and art; they think about money.

— James Arthur

Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your…

— Albert Einstein

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to…

— JR

“A pear, an apple, and a banana in a basket on a table isn’t art, no matter how skillfully painted. But it…

— Jarod Kintz

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in…

— Jane Hirshfield

Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out…

— Valerie Azlynn

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.…

— Bruce Lee

The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song…

— Adrienne Rich

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things…

— Melanie Laurent

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

— Luis Barragan

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

— William McKinley

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it...

— Andre Breton

“You don’t draw, and I don’t breathe. Not so much like last year”

— Cassandra Clare

“great art can come from anywhere but not from anyone”

— abe

The artist must say it without saying it.

— Duke Ellington

Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.

— Alan Menken

The job of art is to turn time into things.

— Robert Genn

“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.”

— The Book of the Samurai

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

— Harland Miller

“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art”

— Lawrence Durrell

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

— Mia Kirshner

The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

— Adrian Dunbar

Any questions?" "Ya why do your drawings suck so bad?

— Tite Kubo

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

— Albert Camus