Art Quotes · Page 277

Artists deserve more than a check cut in half eight times by publishers.

— Jack Conte

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

— Kanye West

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

— Shia LaBeouf

Kimbo Slice is a character in a world of energy when it comes to the art of fighting.

— Frank Shamrock

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

— Aby Rosen

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

— Larry Rivers

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

— Terri Windling

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

— Claes Oldenburg

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants…

— Clive James

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

— Michael Fassbender

“...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.”

— Walter Shaw Sparrow

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence,…

— Axl Rose

Plant your vegetables. With a bit of creativity, your container garden can also be a work of art.

— Beth Haley

I have the most incredible fans, and they have given me so many wonderful gifts. My apartment is decorated almost entirely with…

— Frankie Grande

My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.

— Murray Head

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no…

— Wyndham Lewis

We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer…

— Deeyah Khan

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual.…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which…

— Philip Pullman

I discovered lots of music; electronic synth bands from the mid-'80s like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire. My friends and…

— Giles Deacon

In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With…

— Dylan Thomas

I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is…

— Jacob Bronowski

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as…

— Kay WalkingStick

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental…

— Kanye West

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

— Glenn Ligon

When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

— Nikki Giovanni

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire

— Salman Rushdie

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

— Vidal Sassoon

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

— Oscar Wilde

The bullying was so bad that I got to go to the arts high school instead.

— Justin Tranter

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

— Henri Matisse

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

— Liam Neeson

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

— Wale

“Art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?”

— Sophocles

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

— Art Alexakis

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

— Ansel Adams

“[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.”

— Cal Newport

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.

— Amit Ray