Art Quotes · Page 772

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in…

— Vera Wang

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a…

— Morton Feldman

I'm a super specific songwriter. I always have been. I think the most impactful songs are specific. Broad storytelling just isn't fun…

— Olivia Rodrigo

We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.

— Jermaine Dupri

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

— Milton Mayer

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches…

— Anonymous

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

— Alanis Morissette

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

— Philipp Otto Runge

I don't, really a fashionable person. I'm an actor, so I like costumes. But fashion is very popular now. Really overly popular.…

— Parker Posey

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't…

— Jeffrey Kluger

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high…

— Betty Who

The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And…

— Henry Abbey

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance…

— Cato the Younger

“I have studied the art of the ancients and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I…

— Gustave Courbet

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something…

— Joyce Carol Oates

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,…

— Joseph Brodsky

It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part…

— G-Eazy

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who…

— Lisa Yuskavage

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly…

— Wassily Kandinsky

I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.

— Kesh

I am the artist in the dark (so what) For the light of success, I'll submit a quote by typing the path…

— Mak_786

'The Handmaid's Tale' breaks my heart. It's a show based on the book written in the '80s by Margaret Atwood - who…

— Madeline Brewer

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am…

— Elayne Boosler

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also…

— Booboo Stewart

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

— George Eliot

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

— Jorg Immendorff

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of…

— Debbie Harry

India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other's culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.

— Boney Kapoor

I used to work out for eight hours a day, which includes running, boxing and martial arts.

— Puneet Issar

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south…

— Ambrose Bierce

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of…

— Patrick Swift

“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.”

— Charles Ray

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from…

— Julian Assange

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

— Bill Gates

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

— Parker Posey

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

— Jerry Saltz

We've got to celebrate all diverse artists and actors and 'Aladdin' does that really well.

— Mena Massoud

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

— William Osler

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

— Don DeLillo

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

— William Shakespeare