Making Art Quotes

Making art is an act of faith.

— Julia Cameron

I like making art.

— Ed Skrein

Don't think about making art...

— Andy Warhol

What I'm good at is making art.

— Jock Sturges

Making art is a journey.

— Meinrad Craighead

“I'm making art. Terra”

— Justina Chen Headley

We have no problem making art that's almost obnoxiously gay.

— Chappell Roan

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

— Kiki Smith

Two powerful women making art together is always really cool.

— Lauren Jauregui

Love-making is an art which must be studied.

— Ivor Novello

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

— Steve Guttenberg

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

— Ilya Kabakov

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

— Charles Simic

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

— Jenny Holzer

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very…

— Nell Irvin Painter

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

— Lawrence Weiner

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

— Mitski

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

— Chuck Close

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

— Paul Beatty

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

— Nell Irvin Painter

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

— Melvyn Bragg

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff…

— Robert Henri

I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's…

— John Cameron Mitchell

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it…

— Frank Stella

Most people that are making art are not famous! Most people that are making art do have day jobs. And it takes…

— Kelly Reichardt

I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all…

— Eric Fischl

“In making art you need to give yourself room to respond authentically, both to your subject matter and to your materials. Art…

— David Bayles

I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end…

— Morgan Spurlock

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual,…

— Barbara Kruger

“There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,…

— David Rakoff

The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate…

— Chloe Wise

Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be…

— Michael C. McMillen

The group is enthusiastic about making art, but it's also a good excuse to get together with friends and to enjoy each…

— Jussi Lehtisalo

“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning…

— Lucy R. Lippard

“...TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and…

— Pete Hautman

The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination.…

— Chitra Ganesh

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

— Robert Rodriguez