Art Quotes · Page 226

Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.

— Raheem DeVaughn

“Art is subjective and art as a form of entertainment escapism is as high art as any.”

— Miranda Hart

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

— Philipp Meyer

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

— Romain Rolland

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

— Aaron Carter

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Akira Toriyama

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

— Anthony Trollope

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

— Amy Harmon

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the…

— Marina Abramovic

“Athletic and artistic excellence lies in feeling light. Stretch your reality not just your body.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which…

— Edvard Grieg

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

— Mayim Bialik

I got into the art of producing without the samples now. That takes piano lessons and all that.

— Inspectah Deck

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

— Charles Churchill

That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional…

— Truman Capote

Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts,…

— Antonin Artaud

I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“The art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible,…

— Henry Miller

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

When anyone is creating anything, it has no choice but to be in that stream. The art I create and the art…

— Jennifer Higdon

“But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their…

— James A. Durham

I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with…

— Artie Shaw

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

— Jackson Wang

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

— Christine McVie

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

— John Cameron Mitchell

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

— Howard Pyle

“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

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

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

When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

— Jonathan Groff

In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.

— Ray Still

I find art in simple things and arranging objects gives me enormous pleasure.

— Tara Fitzgerald

“To be forever cursed to stare at a blank canvas is truly tortures for an artist".”

— Halima Omar

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

— Kalan Sherrard

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

— Ester Dean