Art Quotes · Page 106

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

— William Shakespeare

Pain, thou art not an evil

— Alexandre Dumas

“There are no mistakes in art.”

— Maria Renteria

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Leo's goals are works of art.

— Frank Rijkaard

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

— William Cowper

My painting does not come from the easel.

— Jackson Pollock

“Don't be an artist. Be somebody's artist.”

— Zev Rector

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

— Carroll O'Connor

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

— Melvyn Bragg

“Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]”

— Michael A. Vine

The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

— Ken Loach

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

— Ellen Dissanayake

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

— Alice Walker

Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's…

— Helmut Newton

I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and…

— Harry Connick, Jr

The last thing we want is for radio to say that they can't afford to play our artists and turn off the…

— Scott Borchetta

Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the…

— Matthew Slotover

There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic…

— Kehinde Wiley

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no…

— Gerald Brommer

You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.

— Diego Luna

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are…

— Seth Godin

I already knew that this is what I'm gonna do during my life because martial arts, for me, it's not just my…

— Valentina Shevchenko

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that…

— Kendrick Lamar

“I'm not saying I'm able to work consistently out of the premise, but it seems like the big distinction between good art…

— David Foster Wallace

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed…

— Malcolm Mclaren

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think,…

— Kiki Smith

I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more…

— Douglas Coupland

We all wish we were better. I wish I were a better artist, wish I were a kinder person, wish I were…

— Edward Sorel

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

A true artist is an ugly man.

— Osamu Dazai

“There's an art in every labour.”

— Ellis Peters

Land really is the best art.

— Andy Warhol

Art is nothing; it's a way.

— Elbert Hubbard

Politics is not a science...but an art.

— Otto von Bismarck

Art is seduction, not rape.

— Susan Sontag

There's no art where there's no fee.

— Aristophanes

To be great, art has to point somewhere.

— Anne Lamott