Art Quotes · Page 291

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Learn making friends, making art, making time, making love. It'll take you a long way.

— Anonymous

People become stronger because they have memories they can't forget.

— Anonymous

A Lot More Me' is the culmination of 10 years of work as a drag artist.

— Violet Chachki

You never know what can happen if you get sampled by the biggest artist in the world.

— Frank Dukes

“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an…

— James David Lewis-Williams

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's…

— Tye Sheridan

“of all the things I'd either inherited or learned from my mother, the art of the lie was the most useful.”

— Megan Miranda

“It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The Art of Being lays the foundation for your first impressions, because if you get this part wrong not much else matters.…

— Susan C. Young

When I met the people at Warner, they were very excited about my style and making me into this big theatrical artist.

— Saara Aalto

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish…

— Diana Gabaldon

Regardless of anything I say, some people try to take the fact that I'm an artist away from me.

— Riff Raff

“Eros and Thanatos were always the source of his inspiration, even though, from this time on, they usually appear in the guise…

— Gilles Néret

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his…

— Anonymous

The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,…

— Grace Kelly

“Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where…

— John Heffernan

My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Most times I look at Shadow and Poet's work, I see something different from what the words are telling me. I like…

— Cath Crowley

“Plato's objection to the older art--that it is the imitation of a phantom and hence belongs to a sphere even lower than…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared…

— William Ellery Channing

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

— D. H. Lawrence

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

— Rachel Bloom

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Consuming art should involve investment and risk.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

— Mason Cooley

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

— William C. Brown

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

— Logan Pearsall Smith

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

— Norman Rockwell

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

— Hilda Doolittle

“Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John.”

— William Shakespeare

I pay serious attention to new artists. I pay attention to dope artists.

— Scarface

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

— Madonna Ciccone

As a new artist you should ignore trends at all costs.

— Wendy Starland

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

— Paul Auster