Art Quotes · Page 653

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

— Conor McGregor

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.

— Michael Ende

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

— Richard Phillips

Especially for my first album, I struggled with even the thought of being a solo artist.

— LeToya Luckett

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

— Philip Jose Farmer

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.

— Michael Buckley

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is…

— Henry Miller

There have been projects out there involving my father, but they've lacked a complete understanding of his philosophies and artistry. They haven't…

— Shannon Lee

I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O…

— Anonymous

A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the…

— Timothy Morton

“One of the most magical things about photography happens when you place one picture next to another picture to create new meanings.…

— Todd Hido

This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’…

— George Orwell

A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with…

— Deborah Turbeville

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat…

— Chris Colfer

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

— Bill Griffith

Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't…

— Charlotte Rae

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you…

— David Hockney

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or…

— Dua Lipa

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on…

— Del Close

I love like seeing an artist and just being fully encapsulated by the whole narrative and like, you know, getting so deep…

— Ruel

“Art boy is obviously intimidated. You're like the sun and he's squinting up at you, barely able to see because of your…

— Jody Gehrman

My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

— The Weeknd

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking…

— Matt Cameron

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh…

— Francine Prose

“Propaganda is the evil twin of Fiction: while Fiction is the art of telling the truth without ever telling the truth, Propaganda…

— Criss Jami

“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do…

— Robert Henri

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

— Bernie Ecclestone

I love Adele. Adele is my favorite artist. She's British. She's funny. She's just an amazing, incredible voice, and I love to…

— Millie Bobby Brown

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively…

— Michelle Obama

Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings…

— Peter Gabriel

I f you Desire To Blossom Like Rose In The Garden.. First you Have To Learn The Art Of Adjusting With Thorns..

— Ritu Ghatourey

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of…

— Alexander Pope

It's so easy to look at artists, like myself or whoever, and think their lives are perfect. That's just not a reality…

— Carly Pearce

In the Year 2000 the discovery of extraterrestrial life will create a revolution in science, art, and pornography.

— Conan O'Brien

I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and…

— Charles Kelley

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

— Aristotle

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without…

— Caspar David Friedrich

There's nothing wrong with writing for other artists, but that's just not what my purpose is.

— Bibi Bourelly