Art Quotes · Page 818

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

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Shakira

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

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

— Caleb Carr

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

— Tracy Chapman

“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to…

— Katherine Ann Porter

I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward…

— Kerry James Marshall

This has been my struggle for years - the pull between wanting to be in the spotlight and yet also to make…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love…

— James Hetfield

What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get…

— Jimmy Iovine

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are…

— Jerry Saltz

When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of]…

— Bruce Lee

“What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Anselm Kiefer

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

— Massimiliano Gioni

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

— Epicurus

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some…

— Richard Steele

“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

— Chris Mars

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

— Bertrand Russell

Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

— Oscar Wilde

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving where in men find pleasure to be deceived.

— John Locke

UFC has done a fantastic job of establishing the biggest leading brand in mixed martial arts. Years ago, many people didn't know…

— Michael Bisping

“I made art out of all the phone numbers on napkins I’ve had over the years. So it was just one napkin,…

— Jarod Kintz

Being in a group, you don't really get to give an ounce of who you are as a solo artist.

— Dinah Jane

Patreon is a website that helps artists make money. It's crowdfunding on an ongoing basis for a creator.

— Jack Conte

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here.

— Richard Ashcroft

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better…

— Anne Roiphe

Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.

— Hermann Bahr

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over…

— Boz Scaggs

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which…

— Marcus Aurelius

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on…

— John Merrow

Stand-up gets much harder as you become older You become more conscious of how great an art it is and more embarrassed…

— Omid Djalili

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the…

— Damian Loeb

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

— Hiroyuki Takei

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an…

— Thomas Kinkade

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in…

— Nile Rodgers