Art Quotes · Page 51

Art has to address eternal issues.

— Duane Michals

Spirit first, technique second.

— Gichin Funakoshi

I feel that art is beyond language.

— Wangechi Mutu

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

— William Bernbach

I like art. It's another way to rebel.

— John Waters

“It's not Art. And Art is not Design.”

— Chip Kidd

Art is not a career - it's a life.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I was not influenced by any artists.

— Andrae Crouch

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

— Francis Bacon

I am increasingly excited about the artistic possibilities of the Internet.

— Richard Herring

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

— Jean Cocteau

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. ” Howard W. Newton”

— Warren W. Wiersbe

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

— Jean Dubuffet

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

— Jodie Foster

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

— Sun Tzu

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

— Russell Sherman

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will…

— William Osler

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

— Don Herold

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

— Jonathan Sacks

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always…

— Robert De Niro

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

— Trey Anastasio

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a…

— Ansel Adams

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without…

— Russell Edson

“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues…

— Colin McArthur

I want to record many albums, have a healthy record label with talented artists, keep building my publishing catalogue, and maintain our…

— Little Louie Vega

“And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what…

— Tracey Emin

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal…

— Tennessee Williams

There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews…

— Taylor Swift

“My father took me to see this film in 1950, when I was eight years old. And I’ve never forgotten it. I…

— Martin Scorsese

Everything in life goes back to the basics.

— Kron Gracie

I don't have a beef with any female artist.

— Keri Hilson

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

— Edward Hirsch

I believe in art that conceals art.

— Rita Mae Brown

In the art game we do our own cooking.

— Sara Genn

Karate is for life, not points.

— David Walker

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

— Martin Freeman

“Art is the closest thing I have to faith.”

— Abigail Boyd