Art Quotes · Page 286

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

— Martin Freeman

“Love is an art. Mine could fill a museum the size of your heart.”

— Jarod Kintz

I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.

— David Haye

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

— Robert Helpmann

At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.

— Enson Inoue

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

— Marian Engel

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

— Agnes Varda

“The decadent artist markets other people's pain”

— Jennifer Birkett

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here.

— Richard Ashcroft

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

— Bronislaw Huberman

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

— Branford Marsalis

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it…

— John F. Kennedy

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean…

— Allen Tate

There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she…

— David Steindl-Rast

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy…

— Philip Kaufman

You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of…

— Dawn Richard

I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning…

— ASAP Ferg

Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are…

— Neil Portnow

On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design.…

— Hilary McKay

Technology and the Internet have created a new set of relationships. It's changed the social fabric of promotion: advertising, dating. Part of…

— Steve Miller

The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge,…

— Kendrick Lamar

I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my…

— Tavi Gevinson

If I was feeling angry, I had to investigate not just who or what I was angry at, but why. And then…

— Paul Madonna

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.

— Chris Sullivan

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

— Gore Vidal

“Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

— Paul Gauguin

I don't ask other artists for too much advice.

— Blake Shelton

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

— David LaChapelle

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

— Remy de Gourmont

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

— Sean Lennon

It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

— Robert Hilburn

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

— Gail Godwin

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

— Freddie Mercury

“Time' is the most threatening four letter word.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

— JR

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

— John Ruskin

A painter knows how to paint, but an artist knows when to stop.

— Jae Hill

“Furlough took him on a tour of the castle to demonstrate the art of scurrying.”

— Kate DiCamillo