Art Quote by Peter Doig

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

— Black Francis

Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of…

— Jon Pareles

My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

— Doris McCarthy

Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of looking at…

— Kehinde Wiley

I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who…

— Werner Herzog

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

— PJ Harvey

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to…

— Howard Hodgkin

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

— Mary Pratt

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

— Aesop Rock

I am an artist and artists do not lie.

— Nagma

All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.

— John Leguizamo