Art Quotes · Page 255

When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist.

— Isamu Noguchi

“Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”

— Mark Lawrence

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

— Sir Arthur Sullivan

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

— Jonathan Pryce

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

— Federico Fellini

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

— Oscar Niemeyer

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

— John Dryden

As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

— Fala Chen

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

— Vanna Bonta

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you…

— Tom T. Hall

The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.

— Willa Cather

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward…

— Eric Kandel

I want to be more than just an artist and be a people's person and do a lot of stuff for people.

— Stefflon Don

“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night” Shakespeare -- Sonnet…

— J.T. Hunter

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I…

— Frank Delaney

Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that…

— Marcus Aurelius

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant…

— Elton John

Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the…

— Hannah Arendt

“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the…

— Anne Truitt

“ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE: "Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least…

— Alice Simpson

“Each weapon is a work of art, and I wonder what drives the impulse to make the instruments of death beautiful. A…

— Breeana Shields

To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of…

— Josh Holloway

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

— Don Marquis

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

— Helio Gracie

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

— Charles Baudelaire

An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.

— Robert Beverly Hale

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I'm an artist who draws with a brush instead of a arms.”

— Mohamad Aidil Uzaimi

As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

— Andy Grammer

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

— Rod Steiger

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

— Natasha Rothwell

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

— Robin Trower

Defending is an art, everybody has forgotten it.

— Sam Allardyce

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

— Louis Nizer

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

— Gloria Steinem

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

— Woody Allen