Art Quotes · Page 262

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

— Peter Shaffer

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

— Julia Cameron

I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.

— Noelle Stevenson

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

— Scott Kahn

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

— Karen Kain

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

— Chuck D

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

— Carl Andre

Tis woman that seduces all mankind, By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

— John Gay

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing…

— Marina and the Diamonds

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

— Brian Eno

Most of the martial arts techniques go in waves of popularity and usefulness, but they all work.

— Frank Shamrock

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

— Charles Rosen

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

— George MacDonald

I love art. I love music. It's more about the lifestyle you yourself have - that's the most inspiring thing. The way…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an…

— Kathleen Hanna

Even though I feel I am a bit reticent and shy, performing arts like dancing and acting is like my alter ego.

— Sanya Malhotra

I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts'…

— Benjamin Walker

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along;…

— Evelyn Waugh

“This could be your big ticket,” he said. “You know what happens to you at art school?” I shook my head. “All…

— Steve Hamilton

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an…

— John Ruskin

I really don't believe in being 'gifted.' I really think what you put in is what you get. People say, 'Oh, this…

— Beneil Dariush

The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that…

— Neil Young

You go and you see a piece of art; you're looking at it outside of you. When you listen to a song,…

— Fab Moretti

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our…

— Amelia B. Edwards

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

— Ai Weiwei

Excellent customer service? It's a dying art...

— Anonymous

“If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.”

— Jonathan Culver

“Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure.”

— Shakespeare

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

— Edith Wharton

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

— Anonymous

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

— William Landay

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

— Virginia Woolf

I set up a centre for zari-zardozi artists near Paharganj.

— Jaya Prada

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

— Stephen Fry

“Fork! that symbol of the British art of gluttony.”

— Aporva Kala

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

— Francis Ford Coppola

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

— Sean Kinney

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

— John Maeda

If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

— Sun Tzu