Art Quotes · Page 1,002

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If…

— Georges Braque

His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole…

— Berry Gordy

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern…

— Banksy

“My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was…

— C. JoyBell C

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny,…

— Russell Sherman

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then…

— Elliott Erwitt

Teachers have been heroes to me, as well as artists and writers, and I'm honored to be among their ranks. There is…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I feel like visual art, the culinary arts, the theatrical arts - the medium changes, the tools that you use to tell…

— Black Thought

“I escaped into daydreams as I did my piecework. I longed to enter the fraternity of the artist: the hunger, their manner…

— Patti Smith

“(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in…

— Ron Chernow

“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

“As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a…

— Julia Child

“We sing lyrical excess, exacerbated expressionism, imponed objectivity, inventiveness, meta-baroque, extravaganza, super metaphor, sublimity, strident, exposure, super-pone, noise, super-objectivity, zillionism, fragmentation and…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence…

— Nuno Roque

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— Mark Nathan

I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an…

— Lindsey Stirling

Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more…

— Edward Weston

Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big,…

— James Gray

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for…

— Herwarth Walden

I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to…

— Sean Lennon

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement…

— Chinua Achebe

“Or if he takes whatever dull job he's stuck with -- and they are all, sooner or later, dull -- and, just…

— Robert Prisig

Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that…

— Lucy Grealy

The Bruce Lee Action Museum will represent action in the sense that the word is not just used to mean action in…

— Shannon Lee

With the artists that I named - Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna, every time they come out with a new album, something's…

— Sisqo

I want to keep educating the world on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. It's who I am. It's what I…

— Patty Mills

I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not…

— Gerhard Richter

“I have chosen to talk about one of the founder fathers of twentieth-century physics, Niels Bohr, because in both these respects he…

— Jacob Bronowski

What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery…

— Camille Henrot

“Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong To him that blends no fable with his song) Whose lines uniting, by an…

— William Cowper

That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical…

— Richard Linklater

What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what…

— Jim Rowe

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the…

— John Banville

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are…

— Henry David Thoreau

“That's what dreams are really like, you know? They're not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of…

— Amy Reed