Art Quotes · Page 705

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.

— Adam F. Goldberg

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you…

— Tony Danza

It's just so fun to share that experience with your best friend when you're finding your voice as an artist.

— Dave McCary

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

— William Hazlitt

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

— Christopher Bollen

I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it…

— Stan Lee

An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest…

— Robert Adams

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that…

— Philip Anschutz

Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede,…

— Waite Phillips

I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I think to varying degrees, every artist is using their partner as a sounding board. When your partner is the greatest songwriter…

— JP Saxe

Too often, it is presumed that young people will only like art that they can immediately relate to. Working-class students may be…

— Munira Mirza

The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time…

— Robert Shaw

“The problem with the Bobby Fischer theory is that Chappelle is not the kind of artist to meticulously plan ahead, let alone…

— Jason Zinoman

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

— Frank Herbert

When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.

— Jenova Chen

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

One ought, every day at least,to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,and, if it were possible,…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I see myself as a martial artist. I'm a creative fighter. It's not about hitting the guy and hurting him, it's about…

— Chris Eubank Sr

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

— Garry Kasparov

“Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic,”

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the…

— John Malkovich

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why…

— Carrie Coon

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily…

— Swami Vivekananda

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies…

— Peter Greenaway

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

— Gloria Steinem

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

— Laurie Simmons

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to…

— Claude Monet

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and…

— Raphael Soyer

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most…

— Jon Foreman

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen…

— John Frederick Boyes

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

— John Piper

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

— Vivek Shraya

I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to…

— Tony Sunshine

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

— Howard Hodgkin