Art Quotes · Page 549

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

— Boots Riley

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

— George Michael

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's…

— Kristin Chenoweth

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever…

— George Brecht

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

— Aristotle

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

— Stevie Smith

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong…

— Nadia Boulanger

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

— Jacqueline Winspear

Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come…

— Michael Milken

In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted…

— Sarah Schulman

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach…

— Nadia Boulanger

And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous…

— Rainn Wilson

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical…

— Edward Steichen

When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know,…

— Juanes

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just…

— Eavan Boland

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

— Randy Couture

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so…

— Megan Hart

“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.”

— Scott McCloud

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they…

— Jay Sean

Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot…

— Eric Nam

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

— Herbert Bayer

“A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.”

— A.S. Byatt

I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There…

— Marcel Duchamp

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

— John Ruskin

My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another.

— Jason Becker

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate…

— Wesley Snipes

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it.…

— Meg Cabot

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to…

— Julie Taymor

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a…

— Lou Reed

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

— Issey Miyake

Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The…

— Craig Claiborne

I always longed to have someone who would just be there for me. Of course I have Tom. I'm extremely happy that…

— Bill Kaulitz

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...

— Bill Hicks

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

— William Cowper

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

“Because art does for me what religion does-- it organizes a seemingly chaotic world. Because it is my way of making sense…

— Bill T. Jones

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

— Prince Royce