Art Quotes · Page 111

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

— Gedde Watanabe

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that…

— Tariq Ramadan

“There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern…

— Georgius Agricola

“Thou art the Bright Messenger - the Shining One, the being of pure Spirit. Thou art not the man thou hast been,…

— Walter Lanyon

“This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make…

— Robert Pinsky

“Anywhere art visits turns into a gorgeous place!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“To demystify the meaning of love, the art and practice of loving, we need to use sound definitions of love when talking…

— Bell Hooks

Darren Hayes is an artist. Im a singer, I write songs, but the things I do have always been bigger than me.

— Darren Hayes

“the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.”

— Aristotle

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire…

— Stefan Sagmeister

Art is craft, not inspiration.

— Stephen Sondheim

The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Art is a dialogue. I'm throwing rocks across a chasm and hoping people catch them on the other side.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Works of art inspire me to compose.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I…

— Steven Sebring

About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that…

— Marco Tempest

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

— John Legend

Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double…

— Joseph Addison

I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think…

— Jack Kirby

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics…

— Douglas Sirk

I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have…

— Sherwood Anderson

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a…

— Serj Tankian

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

— Yolanda King

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

— Sun Tzu

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

— Johnny Winter

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the…

— M.I.A

I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time,

— Lady Gaga

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual…

— Anonymous

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality…

— Simone Weil

Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to…

— Kirsha Kaechele

“How angry am I? You don't want to know. Nobody wants to know about that. I'm a good girl, I'm a nice…

— Claire Messud

“Yet entertainment--as I define it, pleasure and all--remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as…

— Michael Chabon

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human…

— Gregory Bateson

We live in an era where each of us has a massive catalog of film and television available through the internet at…

— Nick Blaemire

We wanted to make a wearable of tomorrow that is designed for everyone. I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is tomorrow's state…

— Pranav Mistry

I look at everything in an artistic way.

— Tony Curtis

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

— Julia Cameron

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

— Uta Hagen

“Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory?”

— Nicole Sager

“I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to…

— Wendy Froud