Art Quotes · Page 581

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always…

— Roy Ayers

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

— Danger Mouse

There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan…

— Sam Hunt

Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s!

— Yony Leyser

“I don’t want to talk about art, Red. I don’t want to hear you talk about it, either. What I want is…

— Ella James

“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no…

— Dodie Smith

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth…

— Alfred Stieglitz

“Nudity in art was rarely contested by the church until recently. It was not explicitly condemned until the anti-Protestant Council of Trent…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

“The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no…

— John Steinbeck

“Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden…

— Marianne Wiggins

I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters…

— Labrinth

We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the…

— Martin Filler

My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the…

— Nile Rodgers

“Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false…

— Boris Pasternak

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour…

— Edward Gibbon

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

— Tod Machover

It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with…

— Denny Dent

Unbalanced pride is often a false friend, and is ruinous for egomaniacs who can't see beyond their choices of expressing art.

— Martin Dansky

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

— Neon Hitch

Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got,…

— Cass McCombs

It's always been a mantra to me, when making music or creating art, that you have to be vulnerable.

— MO

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

— Walter Pater

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

— Jim Steranko

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more…

— Bruce Beresford

If you're Black or Asian and you want to be a country artist and hopefully have a no. 1 record, you can.…

— Jimmie Allen

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers,…

— Benny Green

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the…

— Pablo Picasso

That I am artificial and attention-seeking, when the truth is that, every bit of me is devoted to love and art.

— Lady Gaga

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with it's painful crudity and…

— Albert Einstein

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything…

— Angel Haze

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion…

— Giuseppe Verdi

I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era…

— Jenny Packham

I was always the pop guy that was a little too country. I talked a little too country; I brought the country…

— Bobby Bones

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

— Oscar Wilde

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is…

— Hilary Rosen

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

— Russell Sherman

Eyes never lie, but can be quite convincing. Your heart doesn't know how to betray. The brain masters the art of deception…

— Anonymous

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With…

— Eckhart Tolle

I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

— Cub Swanson