Art Quotes · Page 505

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

— Max Beerbohm

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

— Debbie Allen

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

— Joseph Conrad

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

— Alexander Calder

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry,…

— Andrew W.K

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one…

— Jason Robert Brown

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

— Masaaki Hatsumi

LIL B WINS EVERYTHING THERE IS NO HIP HOP ARTIST BETTER THEN LIL B BECAUSE LIL B IS ONE OF A KIND…

— LIL B

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its…

— Evelyn Underhill

While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is…

— Frederick Lenz

The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've…

— Natasha Trethewey

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches…

— Scott Adsit

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they…

— E.M. Forster

The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and…

— Michiko Kakutani

Right now anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I'm not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to…

— Art Spiegelman

“Sabism is deabstraction, metacolorism, thematism, exotic, convalescent substrate, soft act, collectivism, pluralization, sensationalism, pluralart, thematic colourism, reabstraction.”

— Lepota L. Cosmo

My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings…

— Sam Palladio

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only…

— H. L. Mencken

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t…

— Frank Gehry

It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

— James Bay

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point…

— Joshua Reynolds

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

— Yann Martel

I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I…

— Sturgill Simpson

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“What ambitious story could you turn your life into? You can’t start over. You have to use only what’s in the toolbox—and…

— Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things…

— Adam Carolla

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more…

— Jerry Saltz

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn…

— Chris Van Allsburg

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had…

— Gauri Khan

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us…

— Anonymous

She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet…

— Damon Runyon

A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good,…

— Peter Guber

I try to create an image to suit my music. These days, you have to create your own personal brand as an…

— Nina Nesbitt

“sacred is the task of the artist when he undertakes to paint the life of the People. Falsification here is far more…

— George Eliot

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know…

— Alison Lurie

I operate on anger quite a lot. Its what gets me up in the morning to make art quite often. Well, irritation…

— Grayson Perry

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be…

— Ned Rorem

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the…

— Pablo Casals

“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art…

— John Steinbeck