Art Quotes · Page 122

“The English artist likes line more than color or texture.”

— Neville Weston

I love that President and Mrs. Obama are embracing the arts. I am so delighted.

— Julie Andrews

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”

— Claude Monet

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

— Edith Sitwell

“In life, like art, there has to be an essential sense of weirdness.”

— Jo Brunini

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

— Vernon Reid

I don't like the competitive part of soccer. It's a war in short pants. I prefer art

— Shakira

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

— Sandra Cisneros

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream,…

— Ferran Adria

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

— Audrey Flack

“But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.”

— The New Yorker

In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy…

— Madonna Ciccone

I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a…

— Nick Diaz

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and…

— Clement of Alexandria

“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and…

— James Thurber

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held…

— Yvonne Strahovski

I had a happy childhood in the suburbs of L.A. My parents instilled in us an appreciation of history, art and, most…

— Jason Collins

I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a…

— Nas

It's sad that people forget sometimes that there is a whole legitimate world of artists and actors out there that work their…

— Yolanda Hadid

I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all…

— Steve Miller

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You…

— Jack White

“There was something different about the artists in the world. It almost seemed as if they felt things differently, deeper maybe. They…

— Brittainy C. Cherry

“Artists have to learn how to paint what's in the mirror, even if what they see is a total (expletive) show...If you…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

— Caio Terra

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

— Wilferd Peterson

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

— Marcel Duchamp

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

— George Orwell

“I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

— Francis Bacon

Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will.

— Shaun McNiff

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

— Philip Guston

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

— Louis Kronenberger

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

— Donald Judd

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

— Jane Alexander

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

— Plato

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

— Otto von Bismarck