Art Quotes · Page 194

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Usually when tragedy is present, a great art movement is right behind it.

— Fantastic Negrito

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

— Anton Chekhov

The history of country music is as important as any other art form.

— Marty Stuart

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

— Leo Ornstein

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

— Abbie Cornish

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

— James Joyce

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?

— Philip Guston

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that…

— Ben Marcus

“She deliberately cultivated relationships with natural philosophers, publishers, and patrons as well as artists…,contacts who would help her build her business.”

— Kim Todd

There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you…

— Pharoahe Monch

“Miss Skylark once said it's heroic to make something beautiful out of a blank page," I say. "With art or words.”

— Patricia MacLachlan

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

— Youssou N'Dour

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living,…

— Rebecca West

Knowing that I inspired SAM SMITH is one of the most powerful experiences I've had as an artist. I was Sam. I…

— Lady Gaga

If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West…

— Wallace Stegner

These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger;…

— Sun Tzu

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten…

— Terry Pratchett

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to…

— Josh Holloway

I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing…

— Julie Dillon

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those…

— Anonymous

“O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave, La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star! To thee I say that if…

— Cervantes

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the…

— Jerry Saltz

I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

— William Kentridge

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

— George Bellows

When I was fighting, each fighter represented a single style of martial arts.

— Rickson Gracie

“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.”

— Christina Westover

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

— Muhammad Iqbal

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

— Samuel Beckett

“Anyone can overdress. The true art is stripping the extraneous.”

— Jacob Oet

I learnt martial arts from a Japanese teacher.

— Bob Christo

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

— Rufino Tamayo

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

— Roma Tearne

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

— Juliana Hatfield

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

— Elizabeth Price

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Even my underwear is art. It's like a splatter painting in yellow I call “Crusty.”

— Jarod Kintz

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

— Avril Lavigne

I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

— Oliver Sim