Art Quotes · Page 788

I'm probably not as big of a hip-hop fan as people may think. I'm not up on all the artists and know…

— Stuart Scott

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their…

— Patrick Stump

One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of…

— Johnny Colt

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all…

— Emanuel Steward

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through…

— Viggo Mortensen

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get…

— Kanye West

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

We was just talking truth. We wasn't trying to be political. We was just trying to be hip-hop artists.

— MC Ren

“He wants to say: First of all, you were wrong about pop music. And art and all of pop culture. And all…

— Joe Meno

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back…

— Marilyn Manson

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,…

— Freeman Dyson

To show a different side on 'Love & Hip Hop' and bring some validity to it and not just be ratchet, messy…

— Omarion

Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life…

— Jeanne Achterberg

I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm…

— Dianna Agron

In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of…

— Dimple Kapadia

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

— Maggie Nelson

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

— Virginia Woolf

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

— Hermann Broch

I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art…

— Barry Jenkins

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent…

— George Jean Nathan

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

— Peter Medawar

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

— William Cowper

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

— Billy Connolly

If I sing it, then I wrote it, even if I didnt sing it, write the lyric, make a millie, let another…

— Ne-yo

Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.

— G-Dragon

“[...] he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

— E. J. Hughes

I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best…

— Kanye West

“I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they…

— Raheel Farooq

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

— Jeff Smith

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

— Billy Joel

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

— Lady Gaga

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity…

— Rudolf Arnheim

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know…

— Jackie Mason

I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and…

— Lisa Frank

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

— Jack Bowman

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no…

— Paul Bailey

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by…

— Dasha Zhukova