Art Quotes · Page 159

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

— Antony Gormley

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

— Henri Matisse

“Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.”

— Amit Ray

I recorded 'The Art of Hustle' album three times because I had the time to do it.

— Yo Gotti

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

— George Bernard Shaw

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

— David Gerrold

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

— Max Bill

“We're not copying life, we're making a comment on it.”

— Richard Williams

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get…

— James Van Der Zee

I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.

— Dhanush

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope…

— Creed Bratton

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They…

— Carlos Santana

When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's…

— Robert Hilburn

I was a pretty fit and physical kid, and my first interest was in martial arts and kung fu with all the…

— Dorian Yates

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty…

— John Keats

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my…

— Richard Ernst

“What follows is the sum and substance of a remarkable year in a great artist’s life— Alexander Wainwright. He was at the…

— Anonymous

Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,…

— Bruce Holland Rogers

Overall, everyone has been respectful of my boundaries and my morals as a Christian and an artist. Sometimes I'll go to photo…

— Stacie Orrico

“One thing I’ve learned about art is that, it’s not perfect. It doesn’t have to be a flawless masterpiece. I’m not perfect,…

— Jac Prescott

Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone,…

— William Shakespeare

People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner…

— Tom Waits

If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an…

— Cody Johnson

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

— Lisa Loeb

I knew I wanted to be in the arts and acting.

— Christopher Jackson

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

— Harold Coffin

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

— Sun Tzu

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.

— Miguel de Unamuno

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

— Sue Grafton

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

— Henry James

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

— Doris Lessing

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,

— Donald Judd

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

— Paul Simon

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger