Art Quotes · Page 118

“Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.”

— Edgar Degas

“That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.”

— Simon Zingerman

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

— Donald Judd

Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

— Sergei Bongart

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

— John Keats

The public has a right to art … Art is for everybody,

— Keith Haring

As a solo artist, my desire is to express myself through my music.

— Jessica Jung

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

— Jack White

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in…

— Boots Riley

I went to UT in Austin for a year as an undeclared liberal arts student. After that year I applied to the…

— Riley Stearns

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

— Wadada Leo Smith

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

— Charles Baudelaire

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists

— Terrence Howard

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put…

— Laurie Anderson

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

— Asher Brown Durand

Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.

— Claude Steiner

“If we are cultivating fruit in an orchard, we wish that particular fruit to grow in its own way; we give it…

— Robert Henri

I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I…

— Finn Juhl

Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for…

— Hal Crowther

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.…

— Ann Radcliffe

“It cannot be denied that the most successful practitioners of the art of life, often unknown people by the way, somehow contrive…

— Virginia Woolf

I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or…

— Gustav Klimt

I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a…

— ASAP Rocky

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in…

— Charles Churchill

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

— Theodor Adorno

There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.

— Linda Perry

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

— Criss Angel

I think PSY opened a lot of doors for K-pop artists.

— Hyuna

“Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.

— John Martyn

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

— Margaret Cho

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

— Andy Warhol

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

— Francisco Goya

'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.

— Tom Wolfe

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

— Jo Brand

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

— Philip Massinger

Art is such an important part of our culture.

— Rosanna Arquette

Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!

— Jimmy Iovine

I want people to see my unique charm I have in contrast to the other artists.

— Yunho