Art Quotes · Page 1,199

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

— Arnold Schoenberg

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

— Shelley Duvall

It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with…

— Brooks Atkinson

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are…

— Claire Weekes

People in the industry have their own judgment on artistes.

— Regina Cassandra

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and…

— Lawren Harris

I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed…

— Michael Jackson

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

— Georges Braque

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…

— George Bernard Shaw

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

— Kyle Dunnigan

For me, acting is an art.

— Disha Patani

I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a…

— Adam DeVine

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or…

— William Gurnall

Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.

— Tovino Thomas

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of…

— Piet Mondrian

It used to be considered an art form to win a tournament without having to shove all your chips in the middle.

— Phil Hellmuth

Music is a living art. You re-create it.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

— Billy Joel

Gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B were what I felt connected to as an artist.

— Raye

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example)…

— Immanuel Kant

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

“[art] those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger…

— Donna Tartt

The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations.

— Andy Mineo

“Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the professional artist that can…

— Robin Sacredfire

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,…

— E. O. Wilson

People in Kolkata know me well for both commercial and art cinema.

— Rituparna Sengupta

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist…

— Jared Leto

It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to…

— Jack Nicholson

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to…

— Albert Einstein

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

— Marshall McLuhan

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded…

— Theodor Adorno

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

— Sun Tzu

“for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return”

— Torah

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to…

— Sebastian Horsley

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

— John Cale

“Do not think dishonestly. The Way is in training. Become acquainted with every art. Know the Ways of all professions. Distinguish between…

— Miyamoto Musashi

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his…

— Jane Addams

We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work…

— Kazuaki Tanahashi