Art Quotes · Page 308

Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work

— Tara Donovan

“The only weapon capable of destroying the system is called ART!”

— James Karrigan

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

— Antony Gormley

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

— Kiki Smith

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

— Seth Godin

I love martial arts, so why wouldn't I want to help people understand it more?

— Frank Mir

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

— Theodor Mommsen

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

— Joanna Baillie

“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”

— Laurens van der Post

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

— Madeleine L'Engle

That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel…

— Dolph Lundgren

Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do.

— El-P

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a…

— Antonio Banderas

No matter how incredible you are as a person, as an artist, if you have all these negative people around you, it's…

— Jackson Wang

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

— Bette Midler

The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would…

— Hilma af Klint

All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on…

— Michael Leunig

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game…

— Sheryl Crow

“My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes [...] The fear was practically…

— Grant Morrison

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to…

— James Agee

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative…

— Herbert Marcuse

Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations…

— Lewis Mumford

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I…

— David Henry Hwang

If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.

— Fetty Wap

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

— Isaac Newton

I sing in Arabic as a statement. It's art, and it's a challenge.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

— Vivek Shraya

“Art is the weapon. Your imagination is the ammunition.”

— Frank Iero

I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

— Colin Mochrie

The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.

— Terence Koh

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

— Nas

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

— Walter J. Phillips

“I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.”

— Jenim Dibie

“When you realise the circle is a circle, you can understand art”

— Greta Bellamacina

I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

— Edward Elgar

Other men said they have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

— Anonymous

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

— Banksy

“We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.”

— Edward Tufte

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

— David Galenson