Art Quotes · Page 668

You never hear of Artist writing songs about how Happy it is to be someone's best friend...

— Stanley Johnston

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

— Robert Zemeckis

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well,…

— James Wolk

I'm so obsessed with the idea of creating a mixtape that feels really authentic to each artist.

— Lola Young

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now if you call 'Ain't No Half-Steppin' ' or 'Raw' an old-school song, I agree with you. But if you call Big…

— Big Daddy Kane

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

— Simon Schama

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

— Chris Lowe

“Hitherto I had been convinced that my friend wanted to become an artist, a painter, or perhaps an architect. Now this was…

— August Kubizek

“But I think we will have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round an…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and…

— Cameron Sinclair

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks…

— Richard Holloway

“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized…

— Tom Robbins

I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is…

— Cornelia Parker

I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to…

— Joyce Johnson

My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think…

— Dale Peck

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right.…

— Sidney Sheldon

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without…

— Frida Kahlo

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with…

— Bernard Arnault

It's not an uncommon event for artists and labels to part ways - Patty Loveless, Vince Gill both did - and it…

— Lari White

There are a few songwriters in bands I really relate to that write a certain type of joy, because a lot of…

— Mark Foster

“The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.”

— Orrin Woodward

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to…

— Ariel Pink

“When you talk to an author or an artist, you’re only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you.…

— Phoebe North

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

— George Ellwanger

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and…

— LL Cool J

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

— Ralph H. Baer

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

— Hokusai

I have an art-school background, not a fashion background where it's like, 'Oh, we're going on holiday to Miami.'

— Giles Deacon

“Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently…

— Martin Gayford

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and…

— Kazimir Malevich

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

— Paul Dano

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

— Ernst Levy

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

— Georges St-Pierre

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art.…

— Nicole McKay

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

— Benjamin Spock