Art Quotes · Page 359

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

— Kerry Cohen

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

— Louise Bourgeois

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

— Witold Gombrowicz

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

— Morris Kline

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.

— Adrian Grenier

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

— Alfred de Vigny

“As we awaken we move from a realm of confusion to one of certainty and Peace.”

— Jacqueline Ripstein

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

— Kenyon Cox

When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music…

— Taboo

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

— Marcel Dzama

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant…

— George Saunders

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the…

— Asa Butterfield

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

— Jonathan Alter

A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

— Richard Prince

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

— Lawrence Lessig

I don't want to be that artist who's doing the teenage angst thing and draw it out my whole career.

— Kevin Abstract

“Reaction against the machine-culture. - The machine, itself a product of the highest intellectual energies, sets in motion in those who server…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“They include conceptual artist and “environmental music” composer Annea Lockwood, who created a work entitled Piano Burning. Debuted in London in 1968,…

— Stuart Isacoff

I count my time by times that I meet thee; These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons, And nights, these are my…

— Richard Watson Gilder

It's not suppose to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets - none of them fitted in at…

— Mouth McFadden

I can remember various stages when I wanted to be an artist, a football coach, and a musician but never an actor.…

— Fred MacMurray

We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition…

— Samuel Reshevsky

It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and…

— Ashley Bell

“We are urged by Socrates to be temperate, and as healers we can sometimes do the best for our patients by doing…

— Richard Colgan

To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

— Garrison Keillor

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

— Ben Elton

My Skeleton's arm and hand. This part is about 1 3/4 feet long. Just the forearm.

— Christopher Timmerman

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

— Philip James Bailey

Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.

— Marty Stern

“i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.”

— Jonathan Culver

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

— John Currin

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

— Deborah Norville

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

— Kevin Smith

“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”

— Anonymous

It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

— Kate Micucci

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

— Joan Miro

Work is an ART; so show your creativity, which fulfill your materialistic needs.

— Asif Z Warsi

I wanted to travel and experiment with different art forms.

— Akshara Haasan

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

— Kristin Hersh

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

— Ai Weiwei