Art Quotes · Page 147

We lead by example, we love by heart, we write by soul, we play by ear. We are Artists.

— Jovette Elise Cutaiar

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all tje paint you can at it.”

— Danny Kaye

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

— Josh Ritter

I happen to like children and I happen to like the arts.

— Jean Kennedy Smith

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

— Karel Appel

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

— Patti Smith

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

— Ricky Martin

“Online, everyone—the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur—has the ability to contribute something.”

— Austin Kleon

Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique…

— Leonard Wolf

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones,…

— Giacomo Balla

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

— Theodore Bikel

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of…

— Wynton Marsalis

“I don't think anyone but Caden sees me this way. Maybe that's the artist in him, or maybe it's the man in…

— Amanda Heath

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art...

— Michael Kimmelman

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the…

— Jack White

“Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but…

— Walter Hamilton

What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something…

— Kehinde Wiley

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do…

— Chen Guangbiao

The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,…

— Lee Hall

I always knew I was going to be an artist. It was a done deal right from when I was very little.…

— Jeff Vespa

The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we…

— Claude Monet

I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result…

— Caroline Polachek

Art express our emotions beyond our own language.

— Feona Suñiga

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

— Tavi Gevinson

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

— Roberto Cavalli

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

— Ken Adam

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

— Bear Grylls

Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

— Marcello Mastroianni

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

— Amanda Palmer

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

— Brad Paisley

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

— James Polshek

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

— Myrtle Reed

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

— Andrew Wyeth

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

— Sidney Lumet

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.”

— Kevin Wilson

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.

— Lux Interior