Art Quotes · Page 49

A lot of artists are such narcissists.

— Kristen Stewart

I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

— Big Freedia

Let silence be the art you practice.

— Jala Ad Din Rumi

Waiting is one of the great arts.

— Margery Allingham

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

— Christina Stead

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

— John Grierson

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no art without intention.

— Duke Ellington

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

— Michelangelo

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

— Eric Drooker

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

— Nina Simone

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

— Curnonsky

Man if pole dancers are art, you know how many fuckin artists I know.

— Drake

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

— Damien Hirst

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

— Val Kilmer

“I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back…

— Lincoln Michel

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to…

— Brad Paisley

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

— Lil' Kim

The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the…

— Anton Ehrenzweig

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

— Roberto Cavalli

The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.

— Wilferd Peterson

I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel…

— Questlove

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and…

— Morgan Parker

Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot,…

— Gerard Way

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every…

— William T. Vollmann

“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a…

— Abhaidev

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two…

— James Surowiecki

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire…

— Rudolf Arnheim

“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man.…

— Hermann Hesse

The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -…

— Antonio Damasio

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

— Marilyn Manson

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

— Ray Bradbury

I haven't placed any limits on myself

— Randy Couture

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

— Gail Porter

“Cultivate the art of renunciation.”

— Thomas Hardy

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

— Joe Cocker

No art should be fashionable.

— Ngaio Marsh

thou art the best o' the cut-throats

— William Shakespeare