Quotes of: Female-artists Keyword

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

David Hockney

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Hedda Sterne

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Jerry Saltz

I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

Florence Welch

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

Juno Temple

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

Kara DioGuardi

If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.

Anton Corbijn

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Anne Roiphe

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

Bill Griffith

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

Brad Holland

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

Bruce Nauman

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

China Chow

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

Charles Saatchi

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Edward Hopper

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Edward Steichen

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Frida Giannini

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

Gianni Versace

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Paulo Coelho