Art Quotes · Page 170

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

— Hugh Walpole

There is a great amity between designing and art.

— Joseph Addison

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.

— Mike Colter

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.

— David Lowery

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

— Robert Genn

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

— Harold Prince

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

— Jeff Koons

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

— Louis Menand

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

— Pat Steir

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

— Anonymous

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

— Louis Dudek

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

— Criss Jami

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

— Robert McAfee Brown

“There were no words to describe her, nor were there ones I could coherently form in the moment; she was a work…

— Raine Miller

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had…

— Jessica Simpson

I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the…

— Terry Crews

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a…

— Orhan Pamuk

Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries.…

— Jeffrey Sachs

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes.…

— Neil Gaiman

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out…

— Jill Greenberg

All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form,…

— Andrew Bird

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

— Haruki Murakami

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art.

— Jordan Fisher

Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.

— Joseph Campbell

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

— Anonymous

I'm not a solo artist. I love to collaborate.

— Shavo Odadjian

Artists that inspire me now are Justin Timberlake, and also Jason Derulo.

— Cody Simpson

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

— Doseone

“It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.”

— Oscar Wilde

The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death...

— Kate Miller

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

— Pamela Yates

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

— Franz Werfel

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

— Oscar Wilde

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

— Jonathan Pryce