Art Quotes · Page 397

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

— Arthur Symons

In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss

— Ai Yazawa

K-pop artists really put in the work, effort and time to perfect everything.

— Jackson Wang

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

— Curtis Jackson

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.

— Gichin Funakoshi

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue

I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist.

— Lee Tae-min

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

— Dorothea Lange

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted…

— Mia Kirshner

“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.”

— Meredith Duran

I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and…

— David Shields

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace…

— Oscar Wilde

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

— Charles Baudelaire

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put…

— Laurie Anderson

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But…

— Rollo May

IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A…

— Anonymous

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he…

— Samuel Smiles

“Cizek came to Vienna [from Leitmeritz, a small town in Bohemia, then Austrian] when he was twenty [in 1885], and entered the…

— Russell L. Ackoff

“It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the…

— Anonymous

It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just…

— Quavo

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

— Roger Stone

Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.

— Dalai Lama

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

— Richard Wagner

“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

— Wale

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

“One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at all.”

— Sun Tzu

Kanye is one of my favorite producers and artists.

— Mike Will Made It

Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to.

— Kid Cudi

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

— Maxwell Perkins

“The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.”

— Brooks Jensen

Literature is an art of word; philosophy is an art of thought.

— Ilkin Santak

We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

— Richard Briers

I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart.

— Scott Coker

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

— Lil Durk