Art Quotes · Page 641

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective…

— Patti Smith

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the…

— Dick Schaap

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the…

— Margaret Weis

I'm studying musical arts, all the way to composition. But I'm also studying theater arts, stage directing and acting.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

“Do not expect redemption if you enter the world of art. Redemption is death to art. Tranquillity is the poison the artist…

— Chaim Potok

“If you re-shape yourself to fit a mold, then you are no longer an original work of art.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according…

— John Cage

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

— Jeff Buckley

Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on…

— Brandy Norwood

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe…

— Pierre Nanterme

“She jerked her hand back and shot me what could only be described as a 'bitch' look. Frankly, it was a fucking…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in…

— Henry Miller

Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when…

— Elizabeth Grosz

The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing,…

— Sun Tzu

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No…

— Helen Keller

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

— William Faulkner

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

— Tim Crane

“...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior…

— John Geddes

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

— Franco Zeffirelli

“Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul…

— Margaret Brownley

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

— John Berger

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

— Liza Campbell

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

— Barbara Hepworth

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on…

— Ruth Negga

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

— Art Spiegelman

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without…

— Lois Lowry

“Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home”

— Estella M. Chung

In all forms of art, it's our duty to hold a mirror to society, without judgement of course.

— Arjun Mathur

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

— Marshall McLuhan

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

— Tom Petty

I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think…

— Roisin Murphy

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way…

— Martin Puryear

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Hip-hop is always what's the coolest, and people want to touch that. A lot of the Pop artists always want to get…

— Scott Storch

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

— Gertrude Kasebier

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

— Alice Neel

All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my…

— Elizabeth Siddal

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

— Oscar Wilde

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person.…

— Jenny Offill