Art Quotes · Page 816

“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.”

— Marcel Proust

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

— Yoko Ono

“In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single…

— Giuseppe Bianco

I just see clothing as cloth, and I see it as art, and I see it as a way to express yourself…

— Rain Dove

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

— Julie Bowen

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

— Nellie McKay

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

— John French Sloan

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public…

— Banksy

If someone doesn't like another artist's song, that's their prerogative. But now it's kind of scary, and I never thought of it…

— Havana Brown

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes…

— Mitchel Musso

I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side,…

— Russell James

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we…

— Jake Epstein

I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's…

— Willa Ford

For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who…

— Marjorie Celona

I definitely believe that the power of the artist is in the artist's hands now. We're kind of in the wild, wild…

— Rhymefest

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

— David Cage

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Nudity is an art. Besides, art is only nudity... There’s no more art, only too much civilization. Art is barbarious... Art is…

— Raúl Ruiz

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes…

— Michelle Stuart

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

— Marianne Elliott

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest,…

— Barbara Kruger

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

— Robertson Davies

“She is, nevertheless, true to those who obey her rules. Has not science proved that she is truthful? Has not art found…

— Kaiten Nukariya

The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look…

— Luke James

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

— Junot Diaz

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could…

— Andre Benjamin

Plant your vegetables. With a bit of creativity, your container garden can also be a work of art.

— Beth Haley

My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.

— Murray Head

I have the most incredible fans, and they have given me so many wonderful gifts. My apartment is decorated almost entirely with…

— Frankie Grande

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence,…

— Axl Rose

“...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.”

— Walter Shaw Sparrow

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

— Michael Fassbender

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants…

— Clive James

“Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.”

— N.T. Wright

I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around…

— Julian Schnabel

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will…

— Henry James

I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist…

— Wendy Ewald

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no…

— Wyndham Lewis

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such…

— Benjamin Disraeli