Quotes by Artists

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke. Yoko Ono

Art Me Like Breathing Choke Start

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. Alex Grey

Wisdom Thoughts Memories Emotions Space Mind Alive Privilege Human Endowed Being Human Body Senses Acknowledge Body Aspect Moment

Art is what you can get away with. Andy Warhol

Art You Get Away

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for. Andy Warhol

Vote Too Once Scared Got Decide Whom

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. Balthus

Art Eyes Draw Pencil Must Always Cannot

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. Ben Nicholson

Me You Soul Corruption Beast Greed Same Thing Down Dante Guys Read Always Same Any Whether Swift Boils Thing

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made. Claude Monet

Trials Made Everything Would Superb Color Head Poke Like Know Am Lots Up Squander Where Place Use

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman. Corita Kent

Man Woman Women Liberation Masculine Feminine

Anything simple always interests me. David Hockney

Me Simple Always Anything Interests

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde

Life Wise People Clever Master Difficulties Clever People Fresh Create Illuminate

In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky. Francis Alys

Sky Eye High Tornado More Low Floor

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst. Frida Kahlo

Life Great My Life Accidents Other Worst Been Diego Far Two

The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages. Gilbert Baker

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. Giotto di Bondone

City Echoes Yearning Rome Illusions

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. Grant Wood

Good Me Good Ideas Had Ideas Came Cow While Ever

All art is erotic. Gustav Klimt

Art

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. Henri Matisse

Creative First Before Nothing Rose Difficult More He Because Were Truly Than Forget Roses Paint Painted Painter Ever

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air. James Turrell

Age Sky Air Colored Consumerism Materialism Traffic Blue Blue Sky

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Legend Real Person Real Person

Nature never breaks her own laws. Leonardo da Vinci

Nature Own Laws Never Breaks Her

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height. Leonardo da Vinci

Man Equal Arms His Length Height