Art Quotes · Page 71

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

— Jonas Mekas

“The best creates, the rest follows”

— Richard Lee JuiChe

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

— H. L. Mencken

Painting is more important than art.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Art is good but it isn't the best.

— Jose Bergamin

“A city full of art is a city full of wit!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The art of love is God at work through you.

— Wilferd Peterson

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

— Marshall McLuhan

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

— Stephanie Seymour

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

— Frances Harper

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

— Camille Paglia

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

— Barbara Boxer

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

— Del Close

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

— T Bone Burnett

Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.

— Mick Hucknall

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't…

— Anton Corbijn

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be…

— Henry David Thoreau

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had…

— Benjamin E. Mays

“Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang…

— Kia Carrington-Russell

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my…

— Isak Dinesen

I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the…

— Richard Phillips

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

— Agnes de Mille

Not only did I always know I was black, I always knew we were and are beautiful, culturally rich, and creators of…

— Angela Rye

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries…

— Paul Cezanne

I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is…

— Seth Godin

“Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things……

— John Dewey

Every show I play, I try and make it unique. I don't pre-plan my sets and always try and drop new music…

— Hardwell

I didn't really know Kurt that well, but there was a guy I always admired. We didn't spend much time together, but…

— Jerry Cantrell

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no…

— Ronald Searle

A race is a work of art.

— Steve Prefontaine

Art is longer than life.

— Lee Strasberg

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

— David O. McKay

I always think street but train sport.

— Conor McGregor

Artists are like everybody else.

— Damien Hirst

Martial arts are unpredictable.

— Rickson Gracie

Drawing is the true test of art.

— Horace

You become an artist to upset your family.

— Gunter Brus