Art Quotes · Page 199

“I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.”

— H.R. Wakefield

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

— Robert Breault

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg

There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

— Joni Mitchell

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

— John Zorn

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

— Paul Theroux

“And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.”

— Kate Chopin

Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists…

— Skepta

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know…

— Moby

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

— Liz Phair

“Regardless of its quality, no one wants to destroy what they created after so many sleepless nights. This is what distinguishes an…

— Abhaidev

“We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live…

— Stuart Scott

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of…

— Thomas Aquinas

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is…

— Susan Sontag

After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially…

— D. H. Lawrence

In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a…

— Theo van Doesburg

“Arturo Vega: I always thought the ONLY way to really conquer evil is to make love to it. My favourite dream is…

— Legs McNeil

“Apocalypse is a part of the modern Absurd. This is testimony to its vitality, a vitality dependent upon its truth to the…

— Frank Kermode

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of…

— Alfred Rosenberg

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's…

— Daniel Ek

I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of…

— Zach Braff

The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the…

— David Lynch

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke

— Steve Martin

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

— Austin O'Malley

Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.

— Elif Safak

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

While I write for myself, I also write for other artists too.

— Jay Sean

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

— Sun Tzu

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

— Heidi Klum

I work hard, whether it comes to writing for my own project or another artist.

— Benji Hughes

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

— Jack White

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

— Ovid

“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”

— Pablo Piccasso

It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it.

— Lee Hammond

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

— John Edgar Park

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

— Robertson Davies

You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.

— Roger Hodgson