Art Quotes · Page 1,174

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your…

— Zhang Xiaogang

Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their…

— George Washington

I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film…

— Dave McKean

“The look of shocked surprise on his face is magnificent. I want to commission a portrait artist to capture it in oils,…

— Sally Thorne

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

— Abbi Jacobson

I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'.

— Russell Means

It was a challenge for me to see how I could deal with that at Jil, and I had a lot of…

— Raf Simons

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

— Henri Matisse

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

— Richard Wagner

I love well-produced stuff. The craft and the art of production is something I really, really love.

— Jack Conte

“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.”

— Steven Pressfield

“I am an artist. I draw things that interest and intrigue me. When I happened upon you there at the lake, I…

— Tracy Anne Warren

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

— Jo Brand

I encourage other artists to remember that labels need you. You don't need them.

— Chappell Roan

Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter,…

— Martin Luther

Work out really hard and be confident because bodies are beautiful, sensual and natural. I've also trained in Wushu, a form of…

— Jessica Clark

Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]

— Thomas a Kempis

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this…

— Gerhard Richter

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

— Kevin Smith

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

— Anonymous

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is…

— Tino Sehgal

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

— Domenico Dolce

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design…

— Gabriel Basso

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business…

— Marshall McLuhan

“How I love Bangkok! It’s so teeming with everything that should be forbidden. I’m not just talking about the sex trade. I…

— John Dolan

If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has…

— Gerhard Richter

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's…

— Robert Hughes

“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable…

— Oscar Wilde

The most important factors for any artist, is the honesty towards one's craft, hard work and passion that guides them.

— Anupriya Goenka

In film, a dancer should always be shot from head to toe, because that way you can see the whole body and…

— Gene Kelly

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

— Louise Wilson

When I launched my channel, I felt I was ready to do this. It's not that I had learnt everything - because…

— Vidya Vox

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

— Paul Klee

And knife making is as much art as science, as far as I'm concerned: Forging metals from an old farm tool into…

— Brad Leone

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to…

— August Wilson

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

— Ernst Fuchs

“Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as…

— Zoe Bell