Art Quotes · Page 130

I’m more concerned about helping humanity through my art

— Sahndra Fon Dufe

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

— Laurence Olivier

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

— Aldous Huxley

As a martial artist, I discovered that there's always so much more to learn.

— Frank Shamrock

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art

— Chinese Proverbs

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

— Paula Cole

My favorite part of school was always my art classes.

— Quinta Brunson

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

— Marilyn Minter

What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up…

— Joell Ortiz

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see…

— Tommy Lee

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

On the 'Blacks & Browns' record, it's me and Sad Boy. He's a Hispanic artist, and we're talking about what we got…

— YG

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he…

— Romare Bearden

The biggest challenge was the whole learning curve of being solo artist. I've been in bands for so long that being a…

— Nita Strauss

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art,…

— Charles Burnett

I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply…

— Trevor Paglen

“When he had finished placing the objects that would be a part of the portrait, the artist asked his subject, "Why do…

— Edward Cline

“Whom shall I trust, O Lord, whom shall I trust but Thee? Thou art the Truth, and deceivest not, nor canst be…

— Thomas à Kempis

I'm one of those artists who, if you'd let me tweak, would probably keep going and going, so it comes to the…

— Ramin Djawadi

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem…

— Robert Fitzgerald

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it,…

— Caroline Polachek

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous…

— Henri Matisse

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's…

— Justin Rosenstein

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting,…

— Lawren Harris

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

— Marcel Proust

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

— Leonardo da Vinci

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

— Saul Bellow

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

— Munira Mirza

I'm a talker, and the art of the conversation is something I really value.

— Robby Hoffman

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

— Marc Chagall

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

— Sun Tzu

“Art is a gun and medicine at the same time.”

— Alin Sav

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

— Wanda Koop

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

— Aulis Sallinen

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

— Thomas Sowell

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

— Andre Maurois

“You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work.”

— Amy Harmon

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

— Henry David Thoreau

That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

— Ella Leya

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

— Dionne Warwick