Art Quotes · Page 432

Couple of artists got words for me, that's never fun. They say it's on when they see me, that day don't ever…

— Drake

Even before I became an artiste, when I barely had the means to support anyone financially, I took care of several destitute…

— Roopa Ganguly

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

— Charles Horton Cooley

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people…

— Ryan McGinley

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

— Geoff Mulgan

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.”

— Charles Baudelaire

There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world…

— Christopher Bollen

Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it…

— Michael C. McMillen

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or…

— Anonymous

“I knew they wouldn’t approve of me, despite the fact I was well off and successful. How I earned my money, and…

— Melanie Moreland

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I love having my voice on my songs now, but it also means a lot to hear that another artist likes your…

— Ryan Hurd

My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes…

— Max Beckmann

I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we…

— Lawrence Jordan

When I was 14 I was really influenced by artists like Protoje and Chronixx, so I started writing lyrics.

— Koffee

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Living in the favorable and unfavorable Situation is called Part of living But, Smiling in all those Situations is called Art of…

— Melchor Lim

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium,…

— Ben Folds

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

— Bono

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

— Tom Stoppard

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

— Jon Glaser

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

— Robert Motherwell

All through college, I did a lot of break-dancing and all kinds of different martial arts.

— John Morrison

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position…

— Kelis

“Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first,…

— Ryan Lilly

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

— Nick Cave

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it…

— Pablo Picasso

My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the…

— Future

I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.

— Dave Grohl

It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her…

— Eric Maisel

You learn from doing and you learn from experiencing what it feels like to be present and lost in the moment with…

— Lucas Hedges

The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes…

— Raymond Chandler

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and…

— Joseph Campbell

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

— Amber Riley

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

— David Gilmour

“The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.”

— Steve Turner