Art Quotes · Page 245

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

— Theodore Zeldin

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

— Victoria Legrand

Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.

— Mark Kostabi

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“As many artists know, dark beginnings lead to colorful ends.”

— Zachary Koukol

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

— Tim Gunn

I want to be the sort of artist that uplifts people.

— Griff

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

— Georges Simenon

I kind of got popular as a spoken word artist, and I ended up doing some ads and audio stuff for Nike…

— Dante Basco

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

— Bruce Lee

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

— Grace Potter

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art…

— Carl Andre

My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his…

— Horace Pippin

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.

— Carole Katchen

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to…

— Chuck D

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's…

— Bob Dylan

Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt…

— Thomas Sowell

“Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless,…

— Arundhati Roy

I think it's to do what's important to you, and having a lot of people - hopefully - listening to your work.…

— MO

Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in…

— Neil Harbisson

It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays,…

— Cormac McCarthy

Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom…

— Oh Land

The left leg, without the foot. It will be about 3 3/4 feet tall.

— Christopher Timmerman

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

— William Shenstone

Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art.

— Linda Barnes

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.

— Frederick Lenz

“Great artists make the entire world their home.”

— Chaim Potok

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

— Criss Jami

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

— Ian Gardiner

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm always going to talent scout and try to find new artists to work with.

— Dr. Dre

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

— Brian Eno

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

— Belly

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

— Marc Chagall

“Meditation is the art removing the weeds from the garden of possibilities.”

— Amit Ray