Art Quotes · Page 453

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power…

— Samuel Johnson

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

— Marilynne Robinson

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is…

— Victor Hugo

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art…

— Greg Lake

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

— Douglas Wilson

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's…

— Warren Cuccurullo

Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

— James Schuyler

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time…

— Donald Lambert

The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information…

— Grayson Perry

I didn't go to art school. I was a basketball scholarship, student-athlete, and both my parents were in the military. I had…

— RaMell Ross

Performers put their heart and soul into their art, and can be subject to highly personal attacks and criticism. The tone and…

— Luciana Berger

Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be…

— Jakob Dylan

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed…

— Saul Bellow

“He pulled her into the alley between the restaurant and the art gallery next door, pushed her up against the cool brick…

— Norah Wilson

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that…

— Anish Kapoor

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

— Andre Gide

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

— Jillian Mayer

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture.…

— Frank Gehry

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

— Jean Cocteau

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex…

— Derek Walcott

I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.

— Martha Graham

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

— Jerry Garcia

I really respect those guys that get $250,000 for punching up scripts, because it's an art form.

— Bert Kreischer

“The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.”

— Joseph Kosuth

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

— Lyle Tuttle

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art…

— Antony Gormley

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're…

— Ayelet Waldman

The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there's actually many things that aren't art.…

— Grayson Perry

Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations…

— Hetti Perkins

My dream job growing up was always to be an artist. It wasn't even that I would be a rapper or singer;…

— Lil Tjay

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

— Catherine Opie

I have a lot of art in the house, but it's mine, friends'. Not necessarily - like, I didn't spend thousands of…

— Willie Cauley-Stein

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by…

— John Ruskin

Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to…

— Anthony Yarde

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

— Jerry Garcia

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

— Chris Daughtry

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

— Michelle Ryan