Art Quotes · Page 615

Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I think that young people should embrace artists like Lemmy from Motorhead but also be open to different styles.

— Robert Trujillo

With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier…

— Marcel Marceau

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

— Pliny the Younger

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

— Theo van Doesburg

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal…

— Edward Hopper

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Gerhard Richter

When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling…

— Sun Tzu

I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to…

— Linda Perry

But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely…

— Gerhard Richter

I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary…

— Warren G. Bennis

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but…

— Henri Matisse

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,…

— Amor Towles

I think time has changed a lot and you need to be presentable all the time. Social media has become really important…

— Asrani

“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.”

— André Aciman

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.

— Shania Twain

I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when…

— Gavin Creel

[Johnny Depp] a wonderful artist, and such a talented person. I got along with him, splendidly. He's charming and wonderful to work…

— Amber Heard

Who owns my heart? Is it love or is it art? Cause the way you got your body movings got me confused.

— Miley Cyrus

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to…

— Rainbow Rowell

“the fringe.” It’s that place where scientists, artists, technologists, philosophers, mathematicians, psychologists, ethicists, and social science thinkers are testing”

— Amy Webb

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

— Cate Blanchett

“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does.…

— Hannah Harrington

We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as…

— Sheryl Crow

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort…

— Lady Gaga

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and…

— Man Ray

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

— Rosanna Arquette

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is…

— Christopher Walken

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness…

— Fernando Botero

The underground always has the best ideas. Sometimes those underground artists transcend and make it to the mainstream, but most of the…

— Kevin Abstract

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

— Philip Johnson

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in…

— Anonymous

“Democracy is the rule of the best con artist. Let those who have true power rule over those who do not." -Dibian”

— Edward L. Cote

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very…

— Noel Gallagher

“It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new…

— Mary E. DeMuth

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

— Elton John

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed…

— Leo Burnett

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first…

— Sigmar Polke