Art Quotes · Page 542

“It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the…

— Elizabeth Palmer

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a…

— Jerry Pinkney

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

— Brian Aldiss

If someone wants to think what I do is somewhat artistic, that's fine, but I'm not looking to be necessarily labeled an…

— Ken Wahl

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life…

— Brandon Boyd

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

— Frank Norris

America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa…

— Fela Kuti

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that,…

— Erich Fromm

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of…

— Arne Glimcher

“You're the last line of defense. When you're dead, Hitler will march through Leningrad the way he marched through Paris. Do you…

— Paulina Simons

Kickstarter is such an amazing platform, it really is. It's something great for independent artists of all kinds because every musician and…

— Jihae

I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like…

— Temple Grandin

The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and…

— George Ezra

The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds.…

— Ayn Rand

“ NEXT LIFE . My embroidery studio on the main street of Bayeux will be just one part of my Institute of…

— Vivian Swift

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has…

— Aleksandar Hemon

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

— Peggy Guggenheim

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole,…

— Ambrose Bierce

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

— Mona Simpson

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

— Hiro Murai

“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about…

— Oscar Wilde

“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not…

— Don DeLillo

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness.

— Tiger Shroff

Being a skilled martial artist takes a lot of focus, and you know the athleticism helps because you just naturally look more…

— Simone Missick

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me…

— Norbert Leo Butz

I was once a struggling artist, so I just want to help others, and provide my resources and connections and the people…

— apl.de.ap

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can…

— Sun Tzu

Every piece of art I've ever made was because I saw bad and could do better, or saw great and needed to…

— Anonymous

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

— Richard Summerbell

The only art I have is a Polaroid from Peter Beard from his book. I shot with him four years ago, and…

— Irina Shayk

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

— Hans Haacke

I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.

— Kat Graham

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

— Golan Levin

I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or…

— Brian Boyd

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

— Robert Barry

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

— Rick Rubin

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the…

— Vincent Van Gogh