Art Quotes · Page 396

“I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.”

— Archilochus of Paros

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

“Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them.”

— Atticus Poetry

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

— Donald Judd

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

— Jane Alexander

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

— Otto von Bismarck

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

— Ken Danby

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

— Michael Haneke

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

— William Shakespeare

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study…

— Jacques Audiard

What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others…

— Michaela DePrince

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty…

— Edward Abbey

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

— Iris Murdoch

Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.

— Georg Ernst Stahl

If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if…

— Chrissie Hynde

I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could…

— Walter Matthau

My greatest passion has always been connecting with creative people, appreciating the artistic and discovering fresh perspectives on the world. I came…

— Bruce Livingstone

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of…

— Henry James

Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconsciousrepression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of…

— Lewis Mumford

At the 'L.A. Times,' I always wanted to write about artists I thought were meaningful. So I interviewed Bob Dylan, John Lennon,…

— Robert Hilburn

As in nature. and in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones, their…

— Thomas Guthrie

I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening…

— Emily Lazar

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

— Plato

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

— Wilferd Peterson

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

— George Orwell

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

— Marcel Duchamp

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

— Francis Bacon

“I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

— Philip Guston

Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will.

— Shaun McNiff

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

— Louis Kronenberger

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

— Vernon Reid

I don't like the competitive part of soccer. It's a war in short pants. I prefer art

— Shakira

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

— Sandra Cisneros

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

— Caio Terra

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

— Jhoon Goo Rhee