Art Quotes · Page 189

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

— Mirka Mora

It's much better for an artist to know everything than to be limited by ignorance.

— Phoebe Gloeckner

“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]”

— Michel de Montaigne

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential.

— Sebastian Lelio

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

— Ellar Coltrane

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

— Anthony Trollope

I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized.

— Akira Toriyama

“Infiltrating the records of a state penitentiary as well as the state and federal court systems was much more fun than deciphering…

— Aleatha Romig

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and…

— James Cameron

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which…

— Vaclav Havel

If I open a Batman book, and he doesn't look right, I can't do it. It has so much to do with…

— Pete Holmes

If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous…

— Coco Rocha

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your…

— Zhang Xiaogang

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the…

— David Hare

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

— David Amram

Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours.…

— Israel Horovitz

S&M is just a set of practices that get classified as a single category, when more accurately they are a part of…

— Melissa Febos

Comedy is like music - there are genres and styles for every taste. Katy Perry is there for people who like frothy…

— Lisa Lampanelli

Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced…

— Alain de Botton

When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and…

— Elihu Root

Actually, for me, I really love to do action movie. You know, most people, they know, they thought that I am a…

— Li Bingbing

David Bowie is kind of the pioneer of glam rock. Not just for music, but just his overall, how he incorporates fashion…

— BØRNS

When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role,…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I was trained in rap. I was trained in martial arts.

— Jackson Wang

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

— Christine McVie

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

— Howard Pyle

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

— Marisa Tomei

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

— Joachim du Bellay

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

— Rene Magritte

To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston.

— Rene Ricard

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

— John Ruskin

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

— Bill Viola

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

— Philip Johnson

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

— William Shakespeare

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

— Sol LeWitt

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

— Robert Hughes

“THE one measure of worth is the art one inspired.”

— Brian S Woods