Art Quotes · Page 686

As an artist, I am very proud of 'Ek Thi Daayan.' It was a supernatural flick and a huge risk, since not…

— Huma Qureshi

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

— Anna Pavlova

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

— Gary Wright

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who…

— Muriel Rukeyser

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

— Octavio Paz

I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.

— Ellsworth Kelly

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas…

— Walter Benjamin

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The tattoo artist inflicts pain and I take it. With each breath I count to one again. Each inhale, each exhale, time…

— Stacy Pershall

I initially thought it was going to feel weird to be [on Sundance] while [the marches against now-President Donald Trump] was happening.…

— Elijah Wood

When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I…

— Kehinde Wiley

My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California,…

— Emily Ratajkowski

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,…

— Tennessee Williams

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and…

— James Jackson Jarves

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad…

— Sarah Silverman

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches…

— Robert Genn

I'm one of those artists who doesn't really believe in fame. You can be a normal person these days, you don't need…

— Ben Howard

I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone…

— Mas Oyama

'The Disaster Artist' isn't really about 'The Room.' It's about friendship and how dreams can come true.

— Greg Sestero

Tokyo is wonderful for distribution of international films, a lot of Iranian films, Taiwanese films. But most of the art films are…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

— Thomas Heatherwick

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to…

— Jane Austen

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional…

— Jon Bon Jovi

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

— Robert Frost

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very…

— John Dyer

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to…

— Fran Lebowitz

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the…

— Charles Baudelaire

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

— Elizabeth Berg

I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure…

— Martin Donovan

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting…

— Donnie Yen

We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so…

— Marc Benioff

“Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small/Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper? -Leia Organa”

— Ian Doescher

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

— Roisin Murphy

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both…

— Leon Battista Alberti

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial…

— Andy Warhol

Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the…

— Sean Scully

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Aikido is not ultimately Japanese: It is an art of universal truth and international significance.”

— Linda Holiday

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of…

— Tahar Rahim