Art Quotes · Page 536

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

— Brigham Young

I am a lifelong Moebius geek. The European approach is perfect, the art is beautiful, and the storytelling is fantastic.

— Rob Liefeld

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

— Robert Ben Garant

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and…

— Jeff Koons

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their…

— Jeff Bridges

As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking…

— Anohni

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of…

— M. Night Shyamalan

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young…

— Hozier

Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art, and live…

— Freddie Gibbs

People are looking for something genuine and I think MMA is one of those few things that is very genuine and very…

— Kelvin Gastelum

“Observing people taking in the work I had watched Robert create was an emotional experience. It had left our private world. It…

— Patti Smith

A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an…

— Zaytoven

I trained with the American Theatre of Harlem, and by the grace of God, that was my foundation to understanding the art…

— Rob Morgan

I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art,…

— Beverly L. Kaye

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works…

— Thomas Huxley

Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never…

— Lynda Resnick

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

— Edouard Manet

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

— Gabriel Faure

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

— Jon Hendricks

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the…

— Robert Wilson

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used…

— Richard Stallman

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

— Jeffrey Smart

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

— Courtney Barnett

The SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications.

— Shiv Nadar

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

— Charles Tart

When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

— Sun Tzu

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

— Edward Gibbon

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.

— Chris Rea

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no…

— Oscar Wilde

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

— Gregory Bateson

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

— Allan Kaprow

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

— Hedy Lamarr

“think how the world would’ve turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.”

— Anonymous

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

— William Friedkin

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld