Art Quotes · Page 1,188

Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so…

— Nas

“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,…

— Moncure Daniel Conway

Should I be collaborating with artists of color solely because of their race and my politics? This question is weighted with my…

— Vivek Shraya

The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very…

— Kehinde Wiley

I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so…

— Paul Rodgers

“The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, how it works, what is involved…

— Loren Weisman

I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very…

— Kehinde Wiley

I saw an early cut of 'The Disaster Artist,' and I thought it was inspiring in a lot of ways, and it…

— Greg Sestero

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of…

— George Inness

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an…

— Richard Jefferies

In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his…

— Virgil Abloh

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I…

— Cameron Crowe

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn…

— William Shakespeare

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the…

— Banksy

It's tough to make music and make it your own, and not have somebody call it something you don't agree with but…

— Jim James

I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it.…

— Mirah

In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should…

— Barack Obama

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any…

— Alex Faickney Osborn

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive,…

— Georges Clemenceau

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are…

— Chris Carter

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity…

— Susan Sontag

I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting…

— Olga Fonda

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing…

— John Varvatos

Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking…

— Stephanie Coontz

When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated,…

— Gates McFadden

I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy…

— Pearl Primus

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time…

— Camilla Belle

I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best…

— Uwem Akpan

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my…

— Geoffrey Rush

“Thou art the Bright Messenger - the Shining One, the being of pure Spirit. Thou art not the man thou hast been,…

— Walter Lanyon

Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow - people will wake up and…

— Marco Rubio

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work…

— David Hockney

“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because,…

— Kid Rock

I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is…

— John Travolta

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be…

— Gary Numan

“To achieve works of meaning, a writer (or any artist) must cut into himself and leave his soul on the canvas, exposed…

— Mardra Sikora

I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs,…

— Banks