Art Quotes · Page 597

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now…

— Tilda Swinton

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily…

— Jane Alexander

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the…

— Craig David

Growing up, watching pop music icons, I never saw a solo artist whose main instrument was drums.

— G Flip

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

— Mark Mills

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

— John Ruskin

“Education is presumed to nurture an appreciation of diversity: the more schooling, the greater the respect for works of literature and art,…

— Bill Bishop

The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both…

— Steven Pressfield

I remember in 'The Wizard of Oz' in middle school, I was the Tin Man. There was this fly on stage, and…

— Cole Escola

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may…

— Joakim Noah

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful…

— Clarice Cliff

My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to…

— Gerard Way

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key…

— Igor Babailov

I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art…

— Thornton Willis

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

— Ray Davies

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

— Steven Seagal

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

— John Chamberlain

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

— Marina Abramovic

“Thy Importance, Not know'st thou. Thou art Adam Whom angels bow. Thou art light of God; Thou art soul to the soul.…

— Asif

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express…

— Andrea Bocelli

“Rock art sites were symbolic vaginas, and entry into the wall of a rock art site was thus akin to intercourse.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

— Susan Sontag

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

— Kevin McCall

“The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.”

— John Frohnmayer

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

— Abe Ajay

Every time I traveled out of the country or did different things or did a new record with an artist I loved,…

— Trina

I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists…

— George Pelecanos

In my mornings I can do what I like - go to art galleries, museums and things, go to lunch with people.

— Nigel Hawthorne

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

— Leland Bell

“Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh,…

— Kate Taylor

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner…

— Jenny Hval

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

“Art You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW”

— A.C. Grayling

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

— Kreesha Turner

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

— Vince Vaughn

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking…

— Lyman Abbott