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Art can only be taught by artists. -- Ruth Asawa
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. -- Albert Einstein
The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art. -- Nikki Sixx
You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. -- Liz Phair
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. -- Kim Gordon
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types. -- John Romero
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. -- Yves Tanguy
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. -- Bruce Boxleitner
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental. -- Asif Kapadia
I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art. -- Alicia Keys
I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art. -- Cy Twombly
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. -- Auguste Rodin
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus. -- Jerry Saltz
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career. -- Siri Hustvedt
By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do. -- Frank Frazetta
I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness. -- Jerry Saltz
The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists. -- Daniel Boulud
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. -- Edward Steichen
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art. -- Leon Krier
Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour. -- Jack White
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. -- Wes Nisker
If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists. -- Vivek Shraya
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. -- O. Henry
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem. -- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

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