Art Quotes · Page 388

“Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.”

— Larry Brooks

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

— Rod Lurie

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

— Yann Martel

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

— Samuel Beckett

“Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters”

— Seth Godin

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

— Edvard Munch

“To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.”

— M. Thomas Gammarino

I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

— Jordi Molla

Beauty and Art of Life is hidden in sharing the Love and happiness without expecting anything in return.

— Nishan Panwar

If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right…

— Jon Hopkins

Growing older, boundaries between the artist and the listener are something that nowadays should be completely demolished.

— Mod Sun

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their…

— John Lennon

I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

— Steve Martin

Some artists want your money so they can buy Range Rovers and diamond bracelets, but I don't care about that kind of…

— Lady Gaga

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just…

— Ian Anderson

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum…

— James Fenton

I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that…

— Nancy Spero

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I…

— Tahj Mowry

I’m Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could’ve been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons…

— Darynda Jones

Japanese culture is something I'm heavily inspired by. I was actually stationed for a few years in Japan with the Navy and…

— Bella Poarch

“Many women have identified with the grimace and the rage of Medusa. May Sarton identifies the Medusa-face as the face of her…

— Miriam Robbins Dexter

I think I'm really drawn to filmmakers and artists who are kind of pathologically incapable of thinking straightforward about film, and about…

— Jeremy Davies

Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I spent a lot of time, a lot of energy trying to be a better artist and I still [do]. I spend…

— John Legend

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

— Mel Gibson

“There are things We live among ‘and to see them Is to know ourselves’.”

— George Oppen

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

— Bertolt Brecht

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

— Rachel Zucker

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

— Peter Drucker

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

— Frederick Lenz

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

— Anonymous

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

— Philip Larkin

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

— John Lennon

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

— Helio Gracie

When we separate music from life we get is art.

— John Cage

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

— John Gay