Art Quotes · Page 306

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Without art we are but monkeys with car keys.

— Anonymous

Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.

— Dhani Jones

Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

— Ray Davies

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

— Duane Michals

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

— Eddie Vedder

“...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

— Madonna Ciccone

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

— Michael Scott

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding…

— Christian Louboutin

“A large part of our artistic creativity, our political commitment and our religious piety is fuelled by the fear of death.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.

— Keri Hilson

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

— Laura Benanti

I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

— Gorilla Zoe

The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

— Horace Walpole

“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early…

— Hume Nisbet

Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if…

— Mark Ryden

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of…

— Anonymous

Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers,…

— Tama J. Kieves

Fashion is something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction the meaning of it is born. Without the wearing…

— Rei Kawakubo

The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves…

— David Bennun

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant…

— Dolora Zajick

Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think…

— Paul Laffoley

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

— Goldwin Smith

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

— Timothy Zahn

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

— Peter Greenaway

Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.

— James Kelman

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

— Herbert Read

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.

— Lynn Nottage

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

— Bob Lefsetz

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

— Louis L'Amour

It's the strong will of an artist that really inspires me.

— Christine and the Queens

An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.

— Martin Kippenberger

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

— Daniel Pinkwater

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

— Ferruccio Busoni

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

— Antony Starr

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

— John Frusciante