Art Quotes · Page 515

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

— Miranda July

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being…

— Kim Gordon

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

— Sol LeWitt

In mixed martial arts, if you get kicked in the face, it's your job not to show any expression to your opponent.

— Matt Riddle

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

— Liza Campbell

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

— Brian Selznick

The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.

— Jimmy Iovine

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

— Guy Berryman

I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both…

— Bob Seger

This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like Günter Brus, and then…

— Rebecca Horn

[My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college.…

— Billy Crystal

“As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write,…

— Lee Gutkind

I've learned about my taxes through martial arts! After getting paid for fights, I didn't know what to do with my money…

— Leon Edwards

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so…

— Dale Chihuly

Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a…

— Maria Dahvana Headley

It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior -…

— Pieter Hugo

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the…

— Barbara Kruger

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch…

— Franz Kafka

I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think…

— Vija Celmins

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame…

— Amanda Palmer

You don't need to be a stereotypical basketball player to be successful. You can be yourself. You can kick it with artists,…

— Channing Frye

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does…

— Chris Van Allsburg

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

— Agatha Christie

Actually all artists love Gujarat because Gujaratis shower respect and a lot of love on them.

— Johnny Lever

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been…

— Beatrice Warde

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher…

— Lou Doillon

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to…

— Michael Haneke

Since frank ocean came out fuck it I am too. Everyone I'm really not an artist I'm…a gangster.

— Cee Lo Green

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

— Paris Hilton

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

— Helen McCloy

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

— Henrik Vibskov

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can…

— Martin Luther

“Don’t Entice me with your beauty, Because I won’t buy that, I only admire and cherish the heart that glows and not…

— Omotoso Omotayo Olawande

I work with an amazing team - I have a stylist and a hairdresser and make-up artist who are always wondering what…

— Netta Barzilai

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

— Jack White

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why…

— Elle Fanning

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art…

— Pablo Picasso

“Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom