Art Quotes · Page 57

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

— Bill Cosby

[There is] a breed of fashion models

— Dave Barry

I'm hooked on martial arts.

— Luke Goss

Art is not only about angst.

— John Corigliano

Thou art a very ragged Wart.

— William Shakespeare

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

— John Ciardi

I'm a martial artist, not a fighter.

— Uriah Hall

“Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.”

— Jim Parsons

As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

— Vivek Shraya

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

— William Hurt

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

— Edward Coke

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

— Doris McCarthy

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

— Francois Delsarte

“Shut the F--- up and create your f---ing art.”

— Garrett Robinson

“hand. Here was a Catholic counterpart to Brooks and Warren, shifting the emphasis away from the artist and toward the work of…

— Paul Elie

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud…

— Nicole Kidman

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it…

— Agnes Martin

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

— Fred Tomaselli

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount…

— Thomas Carlyle

I've had a lot of successes as a songwriter, and I really have nothing to prove in that arena, so I'm just…

— Bonnie McKee

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I…

— Ariel Pink

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

— Ned Rorem

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing…

— Stephen Bayley

“The period before the deluge was the one of revelation in the Mesopotamian mythology, when the basis of all later knowledge was…

— Amar Annus

There's a history of artists being taken advantage of, and artists have to keep criticizing and keep skepticism at a high level.…

— Jack Conte

A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors…

— Wilferd Peterson

I've always been interested in philosophy, but I don't' think there are any philosophers anymore. Now it's artists. It's a visual thing…

— Michele Lamy

I think festivals are way more easygoing than back-to-back tours are. 'Cause for me, when you get to go to a festival,…

— Zella Day

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing…

— Orhan Pamuk

If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would…

— John Daido Loori

“Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.”

— Alan Dapre

Art's for art. Money's for pizza.

— Tim McGraw

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

— Otl Aicher

The artist is called a creator...

— George Henry Lewes

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

— Gustave Flaubert

I am a failed visual artist.

— Aesop Rock

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

— Jonas Mekas