Art Quotes · Page 402

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

— Lynn Whitfield

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

— Joe Simon

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

— John Updike

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

— Agnes Martin

As a pop artist by definition, you have to learn to adapt.

— Pedro Capo

“Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.”

— The Prolific Penman

“Never judge a work of art by its defects. They same is true with people.”

— José N. Harris

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to…

— Ari Shapiro

I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in…

— Robbie Rist

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

— Kevin Spacey

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it…

— Norman Lindsay

New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely…

— Matt Bomer

“W- Work of Art A- Achiever R- Resilient R- Radical I- Independent O- Organized R- Resourceful”

— Shannon L. Alder

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an…

— Ambrose Bierce

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical…

— Anonymous

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes,…

— Lukas Foss

Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to…

— Zygmunt Bauman

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure…

— Sun Tzu

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get…

— Amy Heckerling

The art of living deliberately is the art of examining this vast storehouse of beliefs, dropping the out-moded ones, consciously choosing those…

— Sir Richard Bishop

But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one…

— Elizabeth Berg

As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I…

— Frank Delaney

“But then I got into Joseph Campbell—The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell was the first…

— Timothy Ferriss

“The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.”

— Pearl Zhu

All great artists have some spiritual backing.

— Mase

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

— Michael Steinhardt

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

— Swami Vivekananda

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

— Gutzon Borglum

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

— Frank Gehry

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

— Harold Rosenberg

I think all martial arts have a brutality to them.

— Gareth Evans

“Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.”

— Lori Lesko

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

— Dianne Reeves

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

— Orson Welles

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

— Maurice Sendak

Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.

— Mike Tyson

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

— Henry Moore

“...there is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it." 390”

— Hilary Mantel

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

— Bob Dylan