Top 100 Make Art Quotes
#1. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
Neil Gaiman
#2. I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.
Aman Mojadidi
#3. When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
Patrick Stump
#4. I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you make art with strangers. You give a reading. You move somewhere new and try to build a life. You grapple with humanity.
Laurel Nakadate
#5. Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?
Leos Carax
#6. Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
Pablo Picasso
#7. People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they decide to make art. The technology that people are working with now will be replaced in 10 years, so that's not where your future is, if you're a musician.
T Bone Burnett
#8. I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin
#9. Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
Julian Schnabel
#10. Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.
Judy Chicago
#11. I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it'll affect someone else.
Frank Iero
#12. I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.
Morgan Spurlock
#13. You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Andre Malraux
#14. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]
Shane Koyczan
#15. Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
Ray Conniff
#16. I'm a happy member of the church. I'm proud of it and defend it. It makes me bold and gives me confidence. I feel I know the answer to life - that it's all about. If you're not searching for the answer to life, you have more time to make art. It's a rock for me upon which I can tap dance.
Catherine Hicks
#17. The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.
Michael Gungor
#19. A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.
Doseone
#20. If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.
Amanda Palmer
#21. If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.
Brene Brown
#22. The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.
Jeff Koons
#23. Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
Pablo Picasso
#24. Being DIY is awesome because you have total control, I never really wanted to get signed. I'm successful because I make art that's meaningful to me that resonates with people, and honestly that's all I could ever want.
MC Lars
#25. It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.
Chris Raschka
#26. One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.
Anish Kapoor
#27. If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?
John Zorn
#28. I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.
Hayley Kiyoko
#29. I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.
Thomas Heatherwick
#30. Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.
Yasumasa Morimura
#31. Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Conor Oberst
#32. As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
Seth Godin
#33. I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.
Matthew Quick
#34. Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.
Denis Dutton
#35. Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
John Cage
#36. I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.
Charles Saatchi
#38. What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.
John Edgar Wideman
#39. I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#40. Good can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and throw stuff in the trash. What's important is to get your hands moving and let the images come. Whether it's good or bad is beside the point. Make art.
Austin Kleon
#41. If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Andre Malraux
#42. I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.
Banksy
#44. I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.
Lisa Yuskavage
#45. It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.
John Barth
#47. We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life
Jasper Fforde
#48. We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
Richard Prince
#49. I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
Richard Price
#50. I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
Alex Grey
#51. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.
Greg Lake
#52. It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
Nathalie Sarraute
#53. If you want to make art, go get a job at the Loov-rah.
Jess Walter
#55. TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.
M. Kirin
#56. You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.
Devendra Banhart
#57. Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius
Dostoyevsky perhaps.
Larry McMurtry
#58. We make art so that we can feel life. We do science to understand it.
Preeti Bhonsle
#59. This is a fact. If you don't make art people like, you will never earn a living as an artist.
Jack White
#60. I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
Paul Auster
#61. I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life.
John Gutmann
#62. I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.
Philipp Meyer
#63. Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply
Susan Cain
#64. It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary ... it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.
Sally Mann
#65. Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.
Jane Lynch
#66. We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
Seth Godin
#67. To make art you need to be inspired.
Greg Lake
#68. I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times ... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
Jeff Koons
#69. When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.
Sol LeWitt
#70. I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.
Marcel Dzama
#71. When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs ... so it's completely out of control!
Luis Gonzalez
#72. You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
Elizabeth Peyton
#73. I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Paul Simon
#74. And what he had offered me was exactly everything I most wanted - to make art, to build the future, to help each other become our best selves. He honors me.
Jo Walton
#76. Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children.
Jerry Pinkney
#77. I would like to continue to make art by being able to do what I love and have that make it possible for me to support my family. I'd like to make people happy, show people a good time, and hopefully inspire some people.
Gerard Way
#78. I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.
Sarah Lacy
#79. It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
Pauline Kael
#80. Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel with and for a stranger.
Marianne Wiggins
#81. Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.
Sally Warner
#82. We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.
Holly Black
#83. More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.
Jerry Saltz
#84. I make art when I can't gather the words to say.
Nikki Rowe
#86. I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.
Kim Gordon
#87. ART IS MADE BY ORDINARY PEOPLE. Creatures having only virtues can hardly be imagined making art. It's difficult to picture the Virgin Mary painting landscapes. Or Batman throwing pots. The flawless creature wouldn't need to make art.
David Bayles
#88. I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked.
Cary Fukunaga
#89. The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.
Ben Sollee
#91. Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art
David Bayles
#92. You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
Seth Godin
#93. I make art for the sake of art . . . and for my own selfish gratification, because I'm an artistic monster.
Lindsey Stirling
#94. And you used to make art and like boys and talk to horses and pull the moon through the window for my birthday present.
Jandy Nelson
#95. I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful.
April Gornik
#96. And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art.
Neil Gaiman
#97. I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.
Doseone
#98. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.
Neil Gaiman
#99. When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges
#100. People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.
Nikki S. Lee
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