Art Quotes · Page 267

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

— Pharrell Williams

Just because we're a girl band doesn't mean that we're not credible artists.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

— Edith Wharton

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

— Anonymous

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

— Yoko Ono

The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

— Gregory of Nyssa

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

— Anonymous

The only liquid of world TEARS Made of 1% of Water And 99% of Feelings¦¦¦¦¦¦

— ZhatsPrincess

Unless you have strong roots in films, music, art, painting, or theatre, you can't talk high and think internationally.

— Shabana Azmi

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

— Elfriede Jelinek

“The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their…

— Blaise Pascal

As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.

— Sara Genn

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

— Forest Whitaker

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

— Edward Abbey

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

— Thomas Mars

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men…

— Francis Parkman

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field…Merely think,…

— Claude Monet

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country…

— George Brandis

We're all gonna land, we don't have rocket packs that last forever. But these things that we love, these things that give…

— Frank Iero

I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more…

— Jon Gordon

I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing…

— Nicholas Sparks

“As Solomon himself had remarked, 'We can be sure of talent, we can only pray for genius.' But it was a reasonable…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of…

— Dario Robleto

“Meditation is the art removing the weeds from the garden of possibilities.”

— Amit Ray

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

— Herbert Blau

“the art of life, mostly, the art of avoiding pain”

— Henri Cole

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

— Anais Nin

If an artist like Rajnikanth does a film like 'Manichitrathazhu,' it will be a failure.

— P. Vasu

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

— Jeff Tweedy

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

— Chael Sonnen

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

— Anonymous

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

— Gustave Moreau

“Artists are never poor, they just don't get enough time to make money !”

— Brahmananda Patra

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

— Siobhan Fahey

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

— Larry Rivers

I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.

— Mat Kearney

I work with a lot of artists. Over time, there are certain artists that you click with.

— The Alchemist

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

— Evelyn Underhill