Art Quotes · Page 102

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

— Martin Kippenberger

Art should not have to be a certain way,

— Willem de Kooning

For art to be art it has to cure.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

— Larry Evans

Life too near paralyses art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

— Louise Bourgeois

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

— Rico Nasty

I never wanted to police Blackness or police art.

— Cord Jefferson

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Don’t go to art galleries or museums with me. Ever. (Sorry Dan.) And…”

— Ken Mooney

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

— Margot Fonteyn

All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves.

— J. J. Cale

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

— Luis Gonzalez

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

— Charles Baudelaire

All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

— George Orwell

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

— Michael Dirda

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are…

— Franz Liszt

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

— Robert Motherwell

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of…

— Horace

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

— Zac Posen

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Women artists, no matter how well recognized they are, are seldom given solo exhibitions or featured in significant group shows. They are…

— Agnes Gund

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

— Alex Scally

“Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose…

— Edward Abbey

I'm so interested in the feminism of women in American music. These ladies, going out on the road, way before the opportunities…

— Rhiannon Giddens

“Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language?” “Yea,…

— Kahlil Gibran

I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and…

— Kathleen Hanna

“I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences.…

— Gustave Flaubert

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young…

— Anna Netrebko

O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In…

— Christina Rossetti

If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -…

— Steve Green

They're not dogs [poodles], they're art.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

“Every craft is just breath made visible.”

— Ronen Dancziger

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

— Anonymous

Your life is your art.

— Keri Smith

I'm growing as an artist.

— YG

I drew this last year for art. Yay or nay?

— Aly Johnson

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

— John Kurtz

All our knowledge is symbolic.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe