Art Quotes · Page 473

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

— Jean Patou

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects…

— Theo van Doesburg

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

— Robert Osborne

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its…

— Jasper Johns

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

— Anonymous

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark!…

— Emma Watson

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

— Leonor Fini

“As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but they were as…

— Terry Pratchett

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation…

— Joseph Campbell

I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long…

— I. M. Pei

The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made…

— Alfred Stieglitz

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to…

— Brad Pitt

For me, I wanted somebody that got me musically, that understood that I'm an artist and this is who I am. I'm…

— Joe Nichols

“Yet the freedom of the artist, the pure beauty of nature, and the liberty of each of us to live our lives…

— Sabazius X°

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the…

— Pauline Kael

My hands look like my dad's and my mom's put together. She's a piano player, he was an artist, and I use…

— Rose Namajunas

“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.”

— Psixomaxaristw

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

— Bennie Wallace

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

— Grace Hartigan

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

— Ovid

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are…

— Fantastic Negrito

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

— Ernst Fuchs

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.

— Steven Pressfield

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick,…

— Kat Von D

The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It's not a sport. It's an art. There's no winner.

— Sergei Polunin

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

— George Grosz

“Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.”

— Bonnie Kelso

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

— Roz Chast

When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a…

— John Varvatos

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort…

— Tom Scholz

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity…

— Yukio Mishima

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his…

— Edward Weston

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer…

— Gunther Schuller

I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my…

— Kali Uchis

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

— George Henry Lewes

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

— Don Ed Hardy

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

— Thomas Ruff

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

— Fred Tomaselli

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is…

— Beverly Johnson

I have this ridiculous idea that art should just be for everyone, and everyone should get to enjoy art and it shouldn't…

— Zoe Buckman