Art Quotes · Page 623

The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move…

— Aaron Ehasz

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a…

— Jeff Smith

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

— Ned Rorem

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

— Frank Tyger

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art,…

— Efraim Zuroff

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

— Paul Westerberg

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and…

— George Bellows

“...Thou art My light and My light shall never be extinguished; why dost thou dread extinction? Thou art My glory and My…

— Baha'u'llah

Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even…

— BeBe Zahara Benet

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and…

— Stephen Fry

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come…

— Jeff Koons

The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly,…

— Bruce Lee

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the…

— Joanna Coles

Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I want to prove to people who sit on a couch and don't do anything but criticize other people that, if you're…

— Herschel Walker

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

— Jonathan Culler

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

— Marilyn Manson

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

— Oscar Wilde

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could,…

— Charles de Lint

I got a lot of experience for my age. Some artists might take a line or two from a bunch of songs…

— Lil Tjay

We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a…

— Carrie Underwood

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us…

— Rabindranath Tagore

To master a lesson or any art there is no short cut. One has to work hard, practise for hours, keep on…

— Vikrant Parsai

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of…

— Richard Riley

Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people.

— Gutzon Borglum

We're both very passionate about the arts. Mom, of course with her arts background. I have a theater background and work with…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

— Harold Rosenberg

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should…

— David Morrissey

I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer…

— Spencer Tunick

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

— Richard Engel

“(Query: Is it possible to cultivate the art of conversation when living in the country all the year round?)”

— E.M. Delafield