Art Quotes · Page 116

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”

— Claude Monet

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

— Anonymous

“Seduction is an art that is tested in the mirror”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

— Noah Hathaway

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

— Jacques d'Amboise

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

— John Irving

Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.

— Kay Kay Menon

I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.

— Laurie Hernandez

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

— Lord Byron

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

— Alfred Stieglitz

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

— Steven Wilson

I've seen a lot of artists fall out with their labels and be irrelevant when they come back.

— Scarface

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

— Robert Henri

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

— Angela Davis

Sooner or later, the time comes when a man has to think on the health. I had a really long and great…

— Mirko Cro Cop

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes,…

— Boz Scaggs

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it…

— Jay-Z

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the…

— Medardo Rosso

What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine…

— Harold Klemp

There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides…

— Kali Uchis

I'm the kind of exec that's artist-friendly, because I give them the whole play. I let them be involved with their careers…

— Benny the Butcher

“One loves art more than life; it's better than life, don't you think, Ali? It doesn't disappoint so," she sighed. "It's not…

— Carole Maso

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

— Jerry Hall

I don't think art is bound by language or country.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

“But art should require no instrument but memory.”

— Paul Theroux

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

— Marcel Duchamp

It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

— Pipilotti Rist

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

— Ang Lee

Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message

— Alphonse Mucha

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art.

— Bob Marley

Like war, economics is more an art than a science.

— Sanjaya Baru

I think movies, I think art, can change the world.

— Celine Sciamma

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

— Jack London

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

— Charles Baudelaire

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

— Anonymous

My gallery represents a lot of figurative artists.

— Larry Gagosian