Billy Corgan Quotes

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

The best of any artist is in their art.

I've always been an elite artist.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.

I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

The best artists are gone now.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?