Art Quotes · Page 256

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

— Banksy

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

— Hugh Casson

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

— Jodie Foster

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

— James Whistler

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

— David Salle

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

— Virginia Woolf

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

— David Guterson

I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.

— Michael Gungor

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

— Damien Hirst

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

— William Shakespeare

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

— Jack Nicholson

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks…

— Andre Malraux

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind…

— Robert Barry

There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds…

— Susie Dent

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole…

— Ansel Elgort

See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead……

— Henry David Thoreau

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like…

— Mark Parker

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see…

— Joe Jonas

A lot of sessions I do the artist isn't even there! It'll be just me and the producer cutting drums to a…

— Josh Freese

The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's…

— Edward Sorel

Our job as artists, we believe, is not to make changes in society. We don't have the ability to do that. We…

— John Kani

“What we can take away from this data is that most STEM training will get students a good income at the starting…

— Christian Madsbjerg

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting… it is to assist Nature…

— William Wordsworth

Art is a primal need - even under siege, especially under siege.

— Haris Pasovic

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

— Marcel Duchamp

I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist.

— Fabolous

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

— Sun Tzu

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

— Gunter Grass

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

— Laozi

Artists are so blessed as we get to live so many lives while doing different films.

— Ammy Virk

I refuse to do something that's not me as an artist.

— The-Dream

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

— Herman Wouk

“But shitty human beings sometimes make great art.”

— Jerry Heller

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

— Bobby Knight

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

— Marina Abramovic

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

— Edgar Degas

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

— M.I.A