Art Quotes · Page 157

“The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.”

— Siri Hustvedt

I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

— Todd Rundgren

“But power was a comical thing that humans held and God laughed at.”

— Nick Oliveri

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

— DJ Premier

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

— Rachel Kushner

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

— Clement Greenberg

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

— James Acaster

Beastie Boys and David Bowie are two of my favorite artists.

— Anders Holm

Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want…

— Jasmila Zbanic

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

— Alice Neel

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the…

— Marcel Duchamp

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

— Irving Stone

I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all…

— Steve Smith

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

— Renaldo Nehemiah

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

— Virginia Woolf

“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a…

— Friedrich Schlegel

I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

It's tempting to think, 'This is silly. I'm an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don't care…

— Sarah Gadon

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must…

— Hippocrates

“Art has no answers, only solutions, and resolutions... Art has only vision and revision... Art has only hope and more hope... again…

— Israel Horovitz

Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought.…

— Justin Cartwright

To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work…

— Jan Phillips

Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

— Travis Scott

I'm no art buff but I do have some art in my flat.

— Tim Key

The spectrum of love merges and focuses all of the arts of living.

— Nate

Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.

— Deepak Chopra

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

— Madonna Ciccone

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.

— Reinhold Messner

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

— Phife Dawg

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

— Adam Michnik

Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.

— Donnie Burns

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

— Lucian Freud

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I dont really like comparisons to other artists. I want to stand on my own two feet.

— Conor Maynard

I've never seen an artist have a connection with their fans like TwentyOnePilots!

— Steve Harwell