Art Quotes · Page 540

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I…

— Erin McKeown

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

— Bonnie Raitt

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your…

— Eric Drooker

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

— Dan Fogelberg

I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a…

— Max Joseph

“The sound a box of Lego makes is the noise of a child's mind working, looking for the right piece. Shake it,…

— Grayson Perry

“Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist’s ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way…

— Sam Inglis

Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important -…

— Vic Reeves

When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the…

— Takashi Murakami

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in…

— Werner Herzog

“Success at Go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of…

— Zhang Yungi

It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice,…

— Annie Potts

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them…

— Eric Kandel

Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a…

— Michael Leunig

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith…

— Anonymous

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

— Jackie Chan

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

— Christopher Bollen

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a…

— Baz Luhrmann

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of…

— V. S. Pritchett

It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground.

— Gary Calamar

I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after.…

— Steven Pressfield

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.

— Princess Nokia

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and…

— Robert Henri

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

— Maria Shriver

“She shared the curse of many artists—that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with…

— Carol Anshaw

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to…

— Anonymous

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

— Ezra Pound

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters…

— Jim Rowe

“What's nice about both clouds, and art, is that you can look at them and just resonate. That can be good for…

— Ogden W. Rogers

“Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more…

— Paul Gauguin

When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more…

— Lee Ranaldo

“I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I’m a genuine deceiver, a shy…

— Shawna Lemay

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

— N. T. Wright

“Go out and support the arts in your towns and neighborhoods. You strengthen humanity each time...in the process.”

— Timothy Pina

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also…

— Jerry Saltz

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

— George Carlin

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

— Chris Brown

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge…

— Douglas MacArthur