Art Quotes · Page 780

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

— Scott Coker

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

— Pietro Aretino

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in…

— Sean Scully

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

— Anonymous

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

— Ralph Bakshi

Not that I sound anything like her, but I grew up singing like Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion was definitely my favourite…

— Lights

“The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.”

— Richie Norton

“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work…

— Happy Positivity

“Here, this is for you," the girl said, holding out one of the pages on which she'd been drawing. "Oh, I... well,…

— Tracy Anne Warren

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts.…

— Jerry Pinkney

I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic…

— Uzo Aduba

I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like…

— Jack White

Doing Sherlock Holmes I really got into my development as a martial artist and now coming into Iron Man 2 I really…

— Robert Downey Jr

I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to…

— John Hurt

“A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail.…

— Debra Moffitt

The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

— Sol Hurok

What is love? In math Its a problem, in history, a battle, in science its a reaction, in art, its a heart,…

— Anonymous

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

— Bebe Rexha

I don't feel like I'm putting records out because I have to. It's just my art and I love it.

— Omarion

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

— Florence Pugh

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

— Charles Ives

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is…

— Clyde Butcher

I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But…

— Cornelia Parker

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those…

— Marco Brambilla

I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from…

— Pam Shriver

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

— Bruce Lee

Theatre is known as a beautiful form of art where an actor expresses his emotions and feelings without any re-takes.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad…

— Paul Cezanne

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do…

— Franz Schubert

As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to…

— Coco Martin

“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol”

— Patti Smith

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

— Jackie Chan

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms…

— Maya Deren

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

— Frank Oppenheimer

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised…

— Renzo Piano

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography…

— Charles Baudelaire

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other…

— Edmund Waller

“What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear…

— Francois Jacob