Art Quotes · Page 138

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

— David Seabury

I'm 43 years old and I've never been injured doing any of my arts.

— Dean Potter

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

— Yip Man

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

— Breyten Breytenbach

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

— Andre Benjamin

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

— William James

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

— Lady Gaga

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

— Sol LeWitt

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat…

— John F. Carlson

I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard…

— Richard McCabe

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

— Luc Ferrari

Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you…

— Saulo Ribeiro

I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want…

— Ezra Furman

I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to…

— Nina Simone

“This is the one chance to learn about other things than medicine. Medicine is the art of observation and interpretation, which are…

— David B. Agus

“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really…

— Scott Douglas

“BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs’s work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of…

— Susan Sontag

[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense.…

— Shunryu Suzuki

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things…

— Aristotle

Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends…

— Sarah Thornton

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad…

— Harold Rosenberg

Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation…

— Patrick Holford

“The art of life requires pigments from distant lands.”

— William Widmaier

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

— Plato

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

— Austin O'Malley

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

— Frank Frazetta

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

— Jeanette Winterson

As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

— Barry McGee

I'd trained at the University of Washington and had a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.

— Gregg Henry

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

— Oscar Wilde

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

— Heinrich Heine

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

— Stefano Benni

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

— Oprah Winfrey

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

— Albert Einstein