Art Quotes · Page 112

When you scratch the pen, your mind will not escape from it.

— Anonymous

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

— Albert Camus

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

— Tom Rachman

“Art isn’t about where it ends up. It’s about the creation.”

— Lauren Dane

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

— Anonymous

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

— Kinky Friedman

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

— Oscar Wilde

My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.

— Wendy Whelan

I'm interested in making art that is available to everybody.

— Rostam Batmanglij

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

— Harry Chapin

“Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

— Alex Grey

“The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.”

— Bryant McGill

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

— Alexander Cockburn

I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.

— Leila Slimani

Making television is difficult. Making any art is difficult.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

— Anonymous

Women are deadly artists who paints the futures of great men

— Superman

I always liked art and music and it was what I wanted to do.

— Renee Rapp

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

— Al Yankovic

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

— Peter De Vries

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

— Robertson Davies

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

— Stephen Schwartz

Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.

— Felicia Hemans

It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it.

— Dawn Richard

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

— Pablo Picasso

Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue.

— Romesh Gunesekera

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

— Lucinda Williams

“That’s the thing about art. It really helps to be unhappy.”

— Jonathan Hull

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

— Barbara Kruger

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

— Steve Kazee

Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.

— Alan Menken

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

— Natalie Portman

“Art is a visual language; I'm just perfecting my alphabet.”

— Zachary A. Diaz

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

— Anonymous

I am principally an artist. I became a political cartoonist.

— Robert Graysmith

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

— Constantin Brancusi

“If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you”

— Criss Jami

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

— Mary Ruefle

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

— Sean Scully