Art Quotes · Page 67

Life imitates art -- but badly.

— Edward Abbey

All good art is abstract in its structure.

— Paul Strand

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

— Lafcadio Hearn

Making a good cup of tea is an art.

— Nicky Hilton

Rita Haywood gave good face.

— Madonna Ciccone

I don't see art as entertainment.

— Georg Baselitz

“Look within - there is no end!”

— Malebo Sephodi

I am not an artist which is 'in.

— Julio Iglesias

“A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.”

— Oscar Wilde

Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.

— Edwin Diamond

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

— Paul Cezanne

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

— Jill Sobule

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

— Louise Bourgeois

I've changed as a person because of the art of drag.

— Alyssa Edwards

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

— Derek R. Audette

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

— Tim McGraw

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so…

— Dan Brown

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is…

— Louise Bogan

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

— Pierce Brosnan

I think the artist has an ability to draw pictures for people to where they can process these messages that otherwise they…

— LeCrae

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when…

— Amy Heckerling

I don't think you can be as successful as an artist like Robbie Williams unless you're thinkin' about yourself 24 hours a day.

— Paul Young

Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach…

— William Zinsser

“Whom, then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties? First, those who manage well the circumstances…

— Isocrates

Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and…

— Steven Morrissey

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment,…

— Ted Gioia

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But…

— Woody Allen

There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad…

— Ricky Gervais

“Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a…

— Cassandra Clare

I think of myself as a healing artist.

— Lynn Nottage

“Observation is a dying art.”

— Stanley Kubrick

Every old poem is sacred.

— Horace

Life is short, but art lives forever.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art lies by its own artifice.

— Ovid

“That's art. Nothing is for everybody.”

— Brian Spellman

Art is science made flesh.

— Jean Cocteau

I was a starving artist.

— Erika Jayne