Art Quotes · Page 123

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

“Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" while looking for a bigger stick.”

— Sean Keogh

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

— Lloyd Kaufman

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

— Plato

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

— Kurt Eisner

Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art.

— Roy Lichtenstein

“I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.”

— Archilochus of Paros

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a…

— Gore Vidal

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

— Eric Maisel

You know what? Drake is one of my favorite artists, not just because it's, like, the cool thing to say.

— Thundercat

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every…

— Anne Bogart

In this type of business of making pop records, or just in the artistic world, you hope you leave something that's going…

— Richard Carpenter

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the…

— Kehinde Wiley

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

— Christina Aguilera

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

— Phyllis McGinley

Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou…

— William Shakespeare

“We have seen that our numerical zero derives originally from the Hindu sunya, meaning void or emptiness, deriving from the Sanskrit name…

— John D. Barrow

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves…

— Ovid

“Why don't you tremble?" "I'm not cold." "Why don't you turn pale?" "I am not sick." "Why don't you consult my art?"…

— Charlotte Brontë

My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn…

— Ethan Hawke

Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are…

— Germaine Greer

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's…

— N. K. Jemisin

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.…

— Damien Hirst

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

“Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them.”

— Atticus Poetry

All great artists have some spiritual backing.

— Mase

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

— Michael Steinhardt

“The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.”

— Pearl Zhu

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

— Swami Vivekananda

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

— Frank Gehry

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

— Gutzon Borglum

“Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.”

— Lori Lesko

I think all martial arts have a brutality to them.

— Gareth Evans

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

— Harold Rosenberg

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

— Dianne Reeves

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

— Marcus Aurelius

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

— Lynn Whitfield

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

— Joe Simon

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

— John Updike