Art Quotes · Page 251

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

— David Hockney

The artists ultimately respond to the public.

— Kehinde Wiley

“Truth is nothing but a lie manipulated into art.”

— Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

— Stan Brakhage

“With the holy touch of art, human life has become less lonely and more esthetical!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

— Gustave Flaubert

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

— Khalil Gibran

“Jack’s house was crayon art and blaring cartoons and the smell of casserole. Ethan”

— Marcus Sakey

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be…

— Oscar Wilde

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

— Robert Motherwell

I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too.

— Lights

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in…

— Bible

I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a…

— John Landgraf

In some ways we describe 'Boxtrolls' as 'Oliver Twist' if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he's an extraordinary artist, and…

— Travis Knight

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

— Aharon Appelfeld

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist…

— Garry Shandling

The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State.…

— Stephen Spender

As the artist, you have to live in order to experience life to put that out there, and when you are successful…

— Carlos Mencia

“In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic…

— Amelia Jones

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside,…

— Sara Shepard

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in…

— John Keats

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was…

— John Prine

One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist,…

— Brett Morgen

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

— Andrew Mason

As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.

— Trixie Mattel

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

— Georges Braque

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

— Jean Tinguely

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

— John Locke

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

— David Lean

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

— Tom Peters

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.

— Rorion Gracie

I have no goal to have artistic credibility.

— Andy Biersack

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

— Andrew Stanton

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

— Pablo Picasso

“Knowing the rules of an art is not the same as having the habit.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it.”

— Bertolt Brecht

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

— Mohanlal

People have created feuds between me and other artists.

— Estelle