Making Art Quotes · Page 3

I'm interested in making art that is available to everybody.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

— David Duchovny

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and…

— Zoe Kravitz

To me, the making of art and experiences around that are the biggest part to me.

— Alison Sudol

Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.

— Lecrae

I think that BENEE definitely has this newfound confidence in me where I love to do whatever I want and have fun…

— Benee

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures…

— Ryan McGinley

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art

— Sol LeWitt

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

— Richard Prince

“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.”

— Christopher Moore

These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you…

— Sally Mann

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how…

— Maya Lin

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you…

— Jeffrey Brown

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is…

— Sean Lennon

A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would…

— Cornelia Parker

Making art can be maddening at times and frustrating and not always rewarding, frequently not rewarding. But you do it because you…

— Michael C. McMillen

Make gifts meaningful by putting the time in creating them, whether baking and cooking, or in making arts and craft. It will…

— Lidia Bastianich

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the…

— Charlie Kaufman

“You can tell a lot about a country by its prisons. In hippy-dippy Socialist Sweden, rapists and murders (all three of them)…

— Maureen Klovers

"Facilitate my thinking" means thinking about who I am as a human being in relation to the world around me. It's how…

— Truong Tran

“If I am guilty of hiding among tinier people in a tinier parallel world, it is because I am searching for other…

— Kyo Maclear

Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much…

— Anonymous

I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going…

— Patricia Piccinini

When you're young, and you're doing stuff, you're making music, directing, making art, it's all future directed. You want to change stuff…

— Johan Renck

The internet has extended the possibility of making art to more people, and particularly of enabling it to be seen by others.…

— Michael Craig-Martin

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

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

— Damien Hirst

I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.

— Mija

I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.

— Lari White

I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.

— Grimes

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

— Kiki Smith

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

— Seth Godin

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For…

— Rachel Kushner

“The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the…

— Charles Sovek

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

— John Hughes

If I have extra money, I always love to support my friends who're making art.

— Petra Collins

There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my…

— Jim Shaw

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

— Agnes Martin

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

— Henry Moore

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

— Macklemore