Art Quotes · Page 340

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

— Barry Jenkins

“Art is what separates us from the animals.”

— Iimani David

“Pilate had perfected the political art of compromise.”

— James Stalker

“The artist must operate territorially. He must do his work for its own sake.”

— Anonymous

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

— Michael Cunningham

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

— Irving Stone

“Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.”

— Aldous Huxley

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

— John Milton

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

— Jeff Koons

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different…

— Jonathon Keats

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's…

— George Sutherland

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a…

— Louis de Bernieres

I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection,…

— Chance The Rapper

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they…

— Mark Ruffalo

So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case,…

— Audie Cornish

“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations…

— Michael C. McMillen

When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best…

— Howard Gardner

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it…

— Olly Murs

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church.…

— Jeff Koons

Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we…

— Cass McCombs

Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of…

— Stefan Themerson

I want to get young girls excited in science, tech, engineering mathematics, art, design - and how they come together. We've got…

— Kirsty Duncan

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

— William Morris

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

— Anonymous

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

— Robert Longo

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

— Rebecca Miller

My mother was a makeup artist for Estee Lauder and she taught me.

— Erika Jayne

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

— Wes Fesler

The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

— Paul McCartney

“They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits”

— Evan Meekins

Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

— Dwyane Wade

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

— Thomas Keneally

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

— Cornelia Parker

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

— Pablo Picasso

Lil Baby is my favorite artist. I also like NBA YoungBoy.

— Ja Morant

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

— John Huston

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

— Ned Rorem

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

— Dave Hickey