Art Quotes · Page 645

I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from…

— Pam Shriver

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

— Charles Ives

I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But…

— Cornelia Parker

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is…

— Clyde Butcher

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

— Florence Pugh

As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to…

— Coco Martin

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad…

— Paul Cezanne

Theatre is known as a beautiful form of art where an actor expresses his emotions and feelings without any re-takes.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people,…

— Thomas Kinkade

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it…

— Kaija Saariaho

I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all…

— Laurie Simmons

“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong…

— Oscar Wilde

“Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art you must master the craft. If you…

— Ann Patchett

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may…

— Marcel Proust

“Capitalism tends to do to art what value meals do to cuisine. Think of what the food industry in our nation has…

— Michael Gungor

“Photography turns one and all into fools, including—especially—artists like himself, eager to hunt life and trap as many of its fleeting variables…

— Richard Woodward

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

— Bruce Lee

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do…

— Franz Schubert

What is love? In math Its a problem, in history, a battle, in science its a reaction, in art, its a heart,…

— Anonymous

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

— Sol Hurok

“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work…

— Happy Positivity

I don't feel like I'm putting records out because I have to. It's just my art and I love it.

— Omarion

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

— Bebe Rexha

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in…

— Sean Scully

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea…

— Oscar Wilde

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

— Pietro Aretino

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

— Scott Coker

It's incredibly cool that R & B artists like Kanye and the Weekend, who from a completely different genre to us have…

— Curt Smith

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college…The only way to avoid age discrimination in…

— Larry Gelbart

“The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.”

— Richie Norton

Not that I sound anything like her, but I grew up singing like Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion was definitely my favourite…

— Lights

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

— Ralph Bakshi

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

— Anonymous

Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.

— Anne Murray

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

— John Banville

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be…

— Hermann Goring

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous…

— Cardi B

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over…

— Igor Stravinsky

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of…

— Plato

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

— John Updike