Art Quotes · Page 136

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

— Sun Tzu

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

— Hesiod

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies.

— Romain Rolland

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

— Milan Kundera

“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”

— William Everson

“Emotions of every color create the rich work of art that is life.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

— Edith Sitwell

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

— Yoko Ono

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know…

— Jackie Mason

A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of…

— William Wordsworth

“Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.”

— Matthew Fox

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no…

— Paul Bailey

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by…

— Dasha Zhukova

Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can…

— Sissy Spacek

I know first-hand what it's like to be judged and to have someone criticise your creativity, your hard work and your art.

— Oti Mabuse

I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they…

— Rian Johnson

Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The…

— Michael Dumontier

With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there…

— Ice T

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better…

— Vilém Flusser

Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to…

— Elizabeth Diller

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such…

— John F. Carlson

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and…

— Martin Luther

It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…

— Wilfred Trotter

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

— Michael Dirda

I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

— Nat Wolff

“Originality is the art of hiding your source”

— Harry Roolaart

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

— Hermann Broch

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

— Albert Einstein

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

— Emmanuelle Beart

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

— Anonymous

You grow up with a lot of art and musicality within the Mormon church.

— Sophie Thatcher

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

— Sammy Hagar

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

— Otto von Bismarck

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

— Andy Murray

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

— Al Hirschfeld

Mixed martial arts or whatever you want to call it, it is still martial arts.

— Frank Shamrock

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

— Arnold Schoenberg