Art Quotes · Page 142

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

— El DeBarge

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

— Milford Zornes

“Love! love!.. thou art never to be reconciled with discretion!”

— Antoine François Prévost

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

— Elizabeth I

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

— Uta Hagen

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

— Georges Braque

“Certain artists in print or paint flourish, like babies-to-be, in confined spaces.”

— Ian McEwan

Another drawing I did I like picture I think I did good on this picture :)

— Brianna Ramos

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy…

— Michael Leunig

The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

— Frank Shamrock

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

— Igor Stravinsky

In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need…

— Tzipi Livni

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art…

— H. L. Mencken

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of…

— Mark Haddon

I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my…

— Neon Hitch

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed…

— Carly Simon

It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial…

— Akshay Kumar

When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because…

— Jo Nesbo

“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most…

— Théophile Gautier

“In the world of pop stardom, what is mistaken for rebellion? A mediocre artist who spouts political beliefs that most freshmen in…

— Greg Gutfeld

I always say artists must broaden their research. I go to casinos, fly fishing, to show apartments in new residential buildings, watch…

— Ryan Gander

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms,…

— Casey Affleck

When I was writing my first novel a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was…

— Vince Flynn

“I told the cops I’ve been framed. I told them to just go look in the art gallery.”

— Jarod Kintz

“If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?”

— The Prolific Penman

“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist”

— john j geddes

Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.

— Ilaiyaraaja

If anything can be art, then anyone can be an artist.

— Abbi Jacobson

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

— Sophocles

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

— Stig Dagerman

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

— John Burroughs

Artists like BTS, like BLACKPINK, I respect them in art.

— Jackson Wang

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

— Samuel Butler

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

— Laurie Anderson

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

— Don Roff

We are very excited about the diversity of artists and performances.

— John Wilkes

“Sometimes the answers you need to hear aren't the answers you want to hear.”

— Eric Samuel Timm