Art Quotes · Page 532

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

— Bruno Mars

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

— Edward Albee

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or…

— Erica Jong

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my…

— Bil Keane

“He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.”

— Ian Rankin Doors Open

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where…

— Romare Bearden

Along with my dad, my mother's pretty high up there. She's a star! Her interests are so diverse - she's an art…

— Roshni Nadar

“What people say realistic, may not necessarily the same as what we think. At the end we will know which one Is…

— dee

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art.…

— Chris Martin

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags…

— P. J. O'Rourke

[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that…

— Calvin Coolidge

“The Artist His gift is the ability to deeply see a woman. There are men who truly see women and men who…

— Karen Brody

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art,…

— Elizabeth Berkley

Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best…

— Amanda Foreman

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review…

— Brian Cox

My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of…

— Rose Byrne

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one…

— Paul Gauguin

Media over here, coming to ya like a world premiere. Trench coat and my underwear, let's go with this freak show.

— Britney Spears

“Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still…

— Andy Paula

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd…

— Fred Gwynne

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

— Tracey Emin

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

— Roger Deakins

Repentance is an art, because there is no pleasure than asking for forgiveness from the most merciful and feeling peace.

— Anonymous

The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher…

— Beth Hart

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in…

— Quentin Tarantino

I know how to lead a room, but I also know how to take direction and be a contributor as an artist.

— Colman Domingo

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

— Janet Fitch

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

— Steve Miller

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

— Michel de Montaigne

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several…

— LeRoy Neiman

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

— Wendell Pierce

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

— James Surowiecki

Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator…

— Crystal Reed

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.

— Zack Snyder

I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists…

— Paul Weller

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop…

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do…

— Crispin Glover

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves…

— Igor Stravinsky