Art Quotes · Page 266

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

— Victoria Legrand

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

— Ray Davies

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

— Theodore Zeldin

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

— Zachary Koukol

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

“In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then…

— Kelsea Ballerini

“Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory?”

— Nicole Sager

“To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and…

— Norman Maclean

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

— Billy Baldwin

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it…

— Candace Bushnell

To forgive is an art, and to this day I have not mastered it: I stillcannot forgive myself for my mistakes

— Mak_786

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

— Terence Stamp

I wish there were fewer art dealers. I wish there were fewer auctions. I wish there were just two auctions a year.…

— Laurence Graff

I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where…

— Agnes Obel

It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of…

— Al Yankovic

I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap…

— Mike Royer

I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being…

— Claes Oldenburg

“One must always be careful, for the art of shamanism is fueled by the power of the will, interacting with the power…

— Rak Razam

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,…

— Georg Baselitz

“He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens…

— Ayn Rand

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

— William Shenstone

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

— Christopher Timmerman

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

— Criss Jami

“Great artists make the entire world their home.”

— Chaim Potok

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

— Linda Barnes

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Ian Gardiner

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Marc Chagall

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

— Jean Baudrillard