Art Quotes · Page 434

Art is a dialogue. I'm throwing rocks across a chasm and hoping people catch them on the other side.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration…

— Jim Shaw

“One who argues that photography is not art, only looks at the photograph, they do not look into its meaning”

— Katie Goodnough

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as…

— Tony Kushner

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the…

— David Rockefeller

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of…

— Luciano Pavarotti

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have…

— Orhan Pamuk

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

— Mary Harron

I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts…

— Michael Hyatt

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people…

— Harvey Pekar

In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts…

— Reza Abdoh

“I don't do martial arts for trophies or for fun. I'm a fighter, and I train to win any fight I'm in.…

— Jonathan Maberry

He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's…

— Kehinde Wiley

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of…

— Miles Franklin

“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation…

— Elisa Lorello

It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art.…

— Ruth Asawa

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but…

— John Lithgow

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the…

— Lawrence Weiner

Drake is a man of the art, so he appreciates the new sounds and new music. He's always in tune with the…

— Fivio Foreign

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful…

— Doseone

“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art…

— Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Conscience = Con + Science = the science of conning…it can always be turned into an art...

— Nanda Jamshedpur INDIA

The idea of artist as persona is something that I'm attracted to, so obviously Klaus Nomi is the leader of it.

— Julio Torres

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk…

— Tom Stoppard

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

— David Russell

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly…

— Donald Miller

As we get further into our career we're figuring out how to become more efficient as artists, and doing so many different…

— Black Thought

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

— Hillary Clinton

“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.”

— Walter Isaacson

“It is not possible to have schools for painting; there are only painters. Schools have no use except for discerning the analytic…

— Gustave Courbet

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

— Robert Smithson

The way I look at it, competing at a high level, whether that's business, art or film, athletics, anything you do, there's…

— Chris Bosh

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

— Anonymous

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

— Eckhart Tolle

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher,…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

— Amy Neftzger

I think it's so fun that my art isn't centered in one sound or rooted in one lane or whatever. It's just…

— Bree Runway

Believe me, I love Apple...but iTunes shouldn't be the answer. For artists, it should be the scariest thing in the world.

— Will I Am