Art Quotes · Page 489

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

— Chath Piersath

I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was…

— Martie Maguire

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what…

— Bobbi Brown

Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou…

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

“In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not…

— Maria Callas

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as…

— Jonathon Keats

There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of…

— Clayton Christensen

I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some…

— Laurel Nakadate

If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's…

— Miguel

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money,…

— Erich Fromm

Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence…

— Richard Crashaw

Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's…

— Momus

Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is…

— Henry David Thoreau

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

— Hermann Hesse

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

— Rufus Wainwright

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art…

— Vincent Price

“What a crazy artist this evolution is! Watch the little cats playing; they are the crazy works of the evolution!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

— John Goodwin

There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put…

— Charlie Manuel

In general, the Arab world is an artistic hub that has such a variety, whether it be music, film, poetry.

— Ramy Youssef

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a…

— Philip Taaffe

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham

If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

— KRS-One

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Hey, I’m an art lover,” protested Ramirez. “I love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I’m sayin’?” Beverly’s smile froze.…

— Linda Morris

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.

— Lisa Jewell

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

— Harry Belafonte

“Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.”

— Pushpa Rana

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

— Ruth Benedict

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks,…

— Frank Miller

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down,…

— Martin Luther

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic”

— Susan Wiggs

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

— Jack Kornfield

“Writers, poets and artists inspire each other. I believe they become muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

— Michael Chekhov

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the…

— Rose McGowan