Art Quotes · Page 115

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

— Ezra Pound

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

— Paul Cezanne

“A city full of art is a city full of wit!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

— Jonathan Swift

Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them.

— Chris Weidman

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

— Gail Porter

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

— Dorothy Nevill

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

— Ronald Harwood

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

— Melvyn Bragg

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

— Randall Jarrell

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

— Anonymous

Kanye is one of my favorite producers and artists.

— Mike Will Made It

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

— Richard Ford

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

— Billy Idol

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

— Anonymous

Being an independent artist, you have to find creative ways of getting your music to people.

— Carly Pearce

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

— Kate DiCamillo

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

— Cecily Strong

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

— Rajkumar Hirani

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

— Timothy Leary

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

— Anonymous

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

— Jack Kornfield

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

— Alexander Calder

I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and…

— Steven R. McQueen

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician.…

— Wayne Coyne

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and…

— Charles Baudelaire

As someone that really likes painting and visual art but also likes video and movies and also music and recording and style…

— Andrew W.K

“It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some…

— Jan Greenberg

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to…

— Walker Percy

I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be…

— Harry Dean Stanton

“The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go…

— Robert Wrigley

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

— Carl Andre

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

— Mason Cooley

Life imitates art but art intimidates life.

— Dana Gould

Many artists feel resistance on the way up.

— Chanel West Coast

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

— Angela Robinson

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

— Oscar Wilde

If you're not a successful artist it's your fault.

— Bob Lefsetz

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe