Art Quotes · Page 179

The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.

— Willem de Kooning

As an artist, you're used to being in the public eye.

— Kandi Burruss

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

— Bob Dylan

Acting is suggesting, the art lies in leaving room for the audience to identify.

— Agnes Moorehead

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

— Banksy

“What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night so stumblest on my counsel?”

— William Shakespeare

If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.

— Miyamoto Musashi

“There are no Rules in Art . . .Only Creativity”

— Edna Stewart

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

— Bari Weiss

A different level of musical magic is reached when the right combination of artists are collectively creating.

— Jimmie Allen

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.

— Samuel Johnson

Some art needs to be hung on the wall and stared at inquisitively, while other pieces require a more active approach.

— Anthony Fantano

I am all about the arts and whenever I go to New York, London or Sydney I check out the latest plays,…

— Shibani Dandekar

In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many…

— Tim Crouch

“To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.”

— Blake Snyder

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for…

— JR

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where…

— Grant Morrison

[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come…

— Bertrand Russell

“Swordsmanship is the art used at the border between life and death. It is easy to throw away your life and proceed…

— Issai Chozanshi

I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important…

— Chitra Ganesh

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that…

— Pablo Picasso

I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying,…

— Laurie Simmons

I think any information about any type of art form, it's always the right time. But since the last one, I could…

— Jeff Mills

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

— Pedro Reyes

Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.

— Nuno Oliveira

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

“Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.”

— Hugh MacLeod

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

— David Bowie

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

— Don Johnson

I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I am principally an artist. I became a political cartoonist.

— Robert Graysmith

Like war, economics is more an art than a science.

— Sanjaya Baru

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

— Margaret Cho

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

— Ezra Pound

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

— Shelley Berman

“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.”

— Daniele Vare

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

— Albert Camus

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

— Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

— Joseph de Maistre