Art Quotes · Page 19

Light is impressionism.

— Gae Aulenti

True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation

— Anonymous

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

— Martin Kippenberger

Art simply can’t be stopped.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

— Aristophanes

there is no politically neutral art.

— Bell Hooks

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

— Mason Cooley

“THE AMPUTATED HEART BEATS HARDER”

— Amy King

A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine.

— DMX

Art is not to throw light but to be light...

— Kenneth Patchen

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

— Paul Monette

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

— Alexander McQueen

“We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.”

— Oscar Wilde

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

— John Lasseter

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

— David Bowie

“Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls”

— Khaled Hosseini

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

— James Thurber

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

— Alan Greenspan

“Marshall McLuhan predicted books would become art objects at some point. He was right.”

— Woody Allen

“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance…

— Gary Inbinder

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your…

— Koichi Tohei

My favorite thing is just sitting in a makeup chair and letting makeup artists do their thing.

— Selenis Leyva

“It’s very hard to whisper in your own ear. Love is an art, but as an artist, I guess I’m no Van…

— Jarod Kintz

Doing something new and challenging. It can be anything from starting a business to playing a sport. Seeing a great concert, looking…

— Amber Valletta

I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at…

— George Bernard Shaw

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of…

— David Hume

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist.…

— Tom Hollander

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…

— Ralph Ellison

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms…

— Sol LeWitt

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat…

— Morihei Ueshiba

Sometimes it's just the creative intent of an artist or band that inspires me. I'm generally drawn to artists or bands that…

— St. Lucia

The real meaning of art lies behind it.

— Kendall Roa

“Teaching is a performing art.”

— Chris Biffle

Art is the god you have not seen.

— Mary Butts

All our knowledge is symbolic.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

— John Kurtz

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.”

— Anonymous

They're not dogs [poodles], they're art.

— Rachael Leigh Cook