Art Quotes · Page 333

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

— John Crowe Ransom

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.

— Richard Diebenkorn

I'm not necessarily a happy singer. That's not who I am as an artist.

— Melanie Martinez

“To tryly hate is ab art one learns with time”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

— Henry James

Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.

— Kehinde Wiley

Hacking is not a crime - It's an art of Awareness.

— Abhinav Karnawat

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we…

— Esmeralda Santiago

“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a…

— Patricia Highsmith

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is…

— Anna Camp

I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older…

— Viv Albertine

“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

— Deana Carter

Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.

— Guru Arjan

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he…

— Langston Hughes

I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying,…

— Laurie Simmons

'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an…

— Jim Beaver

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything…

— W.S. Merwin

I came into my own, you might say, in terms of putting out my first record quite late in life. And yet…

— Pegi Young

A big part of the challenge is teaching your kids how to have a real conversation, not a texting conversation. If they're…

— Laurie David

I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners.…

— Barbara Paterson

As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but…

— O. T. Fagbenle

As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human…

— Eric Drooker

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

— Henri Matisse

... music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now ...

— Sam Andrew

Paul had been training martial arts for many years.

— Cody Walker

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

— Mark Helprin

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

— Lady Gaga

I don't need to be everywhere because my art pieces can talk for themselves.

— Jeppe Hein

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

— Grimes

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

— Thia Megia

I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.

— Lauren Jauregui

“art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts”

— Taha Muhammad Ali

I think the best artists are the ones who constantly change - Madonna, Bowie.

— Charli XCX

I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

— Bruce Springsteen

“in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art”

— c.s. lewis

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

— Jessica Brown Findlay