Art Quotes · Page 729

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this…

— Martin Gore

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out…

— Tyler Farr

The thing I hate about mixed martial arts is that it's no longer a sport. It's a big-money business, and it's an…

— Tyron Woodley

Our society and media have lost touch with the job of the artist. The job of the artist has been subordinated to…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world…

— Tracey Emin

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in…

— Hans Hofmann

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and…

— Ricki-Lee Coulter

There are many tremendous artists that never make it. Talent is not enough if no one sees, hears and tastes your work.

— apl.de.ap

“After a time, my hand had become as skilled as my eyes. So if I was drawing a very fine tree, it…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Of course I want you," he said roughly. "Every thought in my head is of you. Tasting you, touching you, taking you…

— Tessa Dare

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the…

— Ali Smith

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of…

— Van Deren Coke

“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all…

— Clyde Brion Davis

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer,…

— Rufus Wainwright

“Trust me: if it doesn’t match: it will clash! Focusing on a stunning complimentary color instead of a close-but-not-quite-right one is one…

— Chantal Larocque

I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first…

— Sigmar Polke

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

— Elton John

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed…

— Leo Burnett

“It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new…

— Mary E. DeMuth

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in…

— Anonymous

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very…

— Noel Gallagher

“Democracy is the rule of the best con artist. Let those who have true power rule over those who do not." -Dibian”

— Edward L. Cote

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and…

— Man Ray

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

— Philip Johnson

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness…

— Fernando Botero

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is…

— Christopher Walken

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

— Rosanna Arquette

The underground always has the best ideas. Sometimes those underground artists transcend and make it to the mainstream, but most of the…

— Kevin Abstract

We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as…

— Sheryl Crow

“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does.…

— Hannah Harrington

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort…

— Lady Gaga

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to…

— Rainbow Rowell

“the fringe.” It’s that place where scientists, artists, technologists, philosophers, mathematicians, psychologists, ethicists, and social science thinkers are testing”

— Amy Webb

I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when…

— Gavin Creel

Who owns my heart? Is it love or is it art? Cause the way you got your body movings got me confused.

— Miley Cyrus

[Johnny Depp] a wonderful artist, and such a talented person. I got along with him, splendidly. He's charming and wonderful to work…

— Amber Heard

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

— Cate Blanchett

“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.”

— André Aciman

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.

— Shania Twain