Art Quotes · Page 751

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

— Liz Phair

I think that any way that we are able to express ourselves as people is valuable and valid - whether it is…

— Aimee Lou Wood

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

— Henry Fuseli

My lips are a lot thinner than what makeup artists usually create, because they make them almost graphic.

— Lindsey Wixson

Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

— John Hickenlooper

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on…

— Susan Rothenberg

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

— Dianne Reeves

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

— Epicurus

“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire…

— Kamand Kojouri

In life, as in art, some endings are bittersweet. Especially when it comes to love. Sometimes fate throws two lovers together, only…

— Bernajoy Vaal

“The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness…

— Jennifer Birkett

It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought,…

— Cote de Pablo

“The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the…

— John Stuart Mill

I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art,…

— William Webb

What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his…

— Medardo Rosso

The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be…

— Ronnie Apteker

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

— Massimiliano Gioni

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

— Tracy Chapman

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his…

— Anselm Kiefer

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract…

— Peggy Guggenheim

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would…

— Caleb Carr

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an…

— Elizabeth George

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better…

— Shakira

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down…

— Charles Bukowski

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.

— Kim Shattuck

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

— Wendy Starland

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

— Oli Thompson

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

— Al Pacino

I'm glamour. I'm vulgarity. I'm scandal. I'm gossip. I'm the future. I'm the counter culture. I'm commercial reality. I'm artistic singularity.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

— Anonymous

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

— Criss Jami

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

— Lucian Freud

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings'…

— Raymond Pettibon

If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?

— Cornelia Parker

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

— Eddie Shaw

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to…

— Omari Hardwick

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity…

— Amitava Kumar

“For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think…

— Anonymous

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are…

— Roger Ebert

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

— Terri Clark