Art Quotes · Page 304

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

— Artemisia Gentileschi

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

— Dean Cavanagh

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

— Andre Maurois

I've known a lot of different martial arts before I came to know Silat.

— Gareth Evans

“Art is not about art. Art is about life.   L. B.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.”

— Crockett Johnson

“What deserves my loyalty, art or prestige?”

— Anis Shivani

Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.

— Lights

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest…

— Salman Rushdie

Martial arts will always be a part of my life. I started when I was five, and if I don't open a…

— Tecia Torres

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education…

— Aristotle

The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an…

— Hallie Burnett

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

— Adolf Loos

I think that might just be how it works to be an artist: you have to pick yourself up and write something…

— Eva Victor

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to…

— Tim Burton

I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art…

— Invader

“The fact is, such an undertaking [an album that reveals a little more of the artist's core insecurities and the reality of…

— Graeme Thomson

“Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying. And I'll generally take a stand-up mercenary who takes pride in…

— Anthony Bourdain

Dissent in art is a fundamental right. But if it is dissent about a book, a piece of art, and if you…

— Shabana Azmi

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston,…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen,…

— Ansel Adams

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

— Marlene Dumas

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

— Nazanin Boniadi

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

— Juliette Lewis

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

— Kalup Linzy

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

— Ansel Adams

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

— Viggo Mortensen

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

— Paloma Faith

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

— Benjamin Franklin

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

— Erwin McManus

“Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped”

— Alan Sheinwald

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

— Georges Bizet

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

— Charlie Rose

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

— Vincente Minnelli

Artists can be themselves. They don't have to pretend to be somebody they're not.

— Chamillionaire

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

— Emily Carr

Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.

— Michael Tolcher