Art Quotes · Page 121

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

— Pauline Kael

I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.

— Virgil Abloh

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

— E. M. Forster

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

— Daniele Vare

“Art isn’t about where it ends up. It’s about the creation.”

— Lauren Dane

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

— Georges Carpentier

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

— Gao Xingjian

I want to keep making cool projects and just keep being a part of just making cool art.

— Angus Cloud

“Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool.…

— Martin Gayford

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

— Jorge Luis Borges

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse

Actually, I have never been a great fan of martial arts competitions. Not even when I was training martial arts myself.

— Varg Vikernes

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

— Harry Harrison

I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but…

— Eric Drooker

I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's…

— Ron Parker

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the…

— Nick Cannon

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and…

— Teena Marie

“All art is immoral… For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of…

— Yosay Briels

“When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, "We're all here to undergo a communion, to find…

— David Mamet

“…I have fallen in love with a painting. Though that phrase doesn’t seem to suffice, not really—rather’s it that I have been…

— Mark Doty

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for…

— Martial

It's harder to do anything in the public eye now, in terms of if you're worried about scrutiny or being judged negatively.…

— Andy Samberg

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

— Peabo Bryson

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

— Suzy Bogguss

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't really trust musical artists that don't also do visual art.

— Hunx

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

— David Bailey

As an artist you have to keep reinventing yourself.

— David Hammons

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

— Ana Castillo

I may not be good at drawing but this is how I really draw what do yall think?

— Brianna Ramos

Well, everything you do in life you have to do if it's an art.

— MC Hammer

I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.

— Misty Copeland

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

— Henry Becque

“To live a peaceful existence one should be trained in art of acting...”

— Manjula Jyothiprakash

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

— Anne Truitt

I've been doing martial arts since I was 15.

— Dillon Danis

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

— Elizabeth Hardwick