Art Quotes · Page 387

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

— Gunter Grass

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

— Liz Phair

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

— Ai Weiwei

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

— Russell Simmons

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

— Thomas Kinkade

If I have extra money, I always love to support my friends who're making art.

— Petra Collins

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

— Damien Hirst

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your…

— Toyin Odutola

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being…

— Amy Sillman

I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but…

— Pat Metheny

Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to…

— Antanas Mockus

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

— Eli Broad

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all…

— Henry David Thoreau

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

— Ben Jonson

Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with…

— Elizabeth Flock

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the…

— Alan Moore

Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for…

— Alex Abreu

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure…

— Louis Kahn

Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a…

— Jasper Johns

It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute…

— Czeslaw Milosz

I kind of decided to take a year out to see where the music would go and then it started going somewhere…

— Florence And The Machine

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand…

— Tariq Ramadan

“What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous?”

— Nenia Campbell

I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.

— Kadir Nelson

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.

— Henri Matisse

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

— Julia Cameron

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

— William Empson

“Video games are the 10th art, and films are the 7th, period.”

— Kimberly Loskov

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

— Louise Bourgeois

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

— Jonathan Swift

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

— Albrecht Durer

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

I'm an artist because of how I do things, not because I'm trying to be one.

— The-Dream

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

— Maya Angelou

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

— Giorgio Vasari