Art Quotes · Page 303

If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

— Sun Tzu

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

— Nigel Dennis

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

— Georges Braque

Don't re create the disaster, paint a new art.

— Myself (MissSarcasm

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

— Nellie McKay

“For art to truly affect us, it needs to be, in a sense, “given.”

— Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

It can beat an artist down when people say bad things about you.

— Kane Brown

“[...] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.”

— Alain de Botton

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher,…

— Steven Pinker

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you…

— Harry Callahan

I guess at my core, I'm an artist. And so the opportunity to utilize my imagination, create things and share stories is…

— Judy Norton

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed…

— Sol LeWitt

“I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then…

— John Baldessari

I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: ‘Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.’…

— Kendall Jenner

I like money but I love performance art and it goes hand in hand. I'm not the 'Titanic,' I'm 'The Rocky Horror…

— Sharon Needles

“The duchess of Retz, who was fluent in Latin and Greek (languages she had acquired as a result of her first husband’s…

— Nancy Goldstone

When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people…

— Gabe Polsky

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Sabrina fair Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train…

— John Milton

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed…

— Robert Zemeckis

Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if…

— Kim Swift

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of…

— Ani DiFranco

Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

— Philip James Bailey

It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.

— Gogen Yamaguchi

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

— Saint Augustine

Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.

— Nas

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

— John Ruskin

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

— Sun Tzu

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

— Henry James

Be creative with life, you are the artist and the world is your picture.

— Victoria Dawn Monks

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

— Placido Domingo

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

— Eric Maisel

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

— Beck

There is no history of artthere is the history of artists.

— Marianne von Werefkin

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

— Seth

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

— William Faulkner