Art Quotes · Page 64

“It's not Art. And Art is not Design.”

— Chip Kidd

Art is not a career - it's a life.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I was not influenced by any artists.

— Andrae Crouch

Everything in life goes back to the basics.

— Kron Gracie

I don't have a beef with any female artist.

— Keri Hilson

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

— Edward Hirsch

You can't make love without art.

— Alan Watts

thou art the best o' the cut-throats

— William Shakespeare

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

— Graham Hill

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

— Marie Laurencin

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

— Tommy McCarthy

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

— Lee Hammond

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

— Andre Bazin

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

— Henri Matisse

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

— Gloria Trevi

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things…

— John Milton

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All…

— Alexander Pope

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

— Ty Pennington

“Fundamentalism and art are mutually exclusive. There is no such thing as fundamentalist art.”

— Steven Pressfield

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

— Emanuel Lasker

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its…

— George Stillman Hillard

it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not…

— Nikolai Gogol

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

— Santiago Calatrava

I can strip down basic principles of certain things and apply it to everything else. And that keeps you interested, changing the…

— Lupe Fiasco

Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing…

— Bikram Choudhury

Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into…

— Aristotle

“As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of…

— Jasper Johns

Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than…

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give…

— Susan Sontag

Trying to force creativity is never good.

— Sarah McLachlan

“Never argue with an artist.”

— Albert Einstein

Pop art is a way of liking things.

— Andy Warhol

Great artists suffer for the people.

— Marvin Gaye

Space is the breath of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I want to tour less and make more art.

— Mija

“Ars est celaree artem.”

— Anonymous

All great art is a form of complaint

— John Cage