Art Quotes · Page 152

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

— Eric Cantona

I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.

— Joel Kinnaman

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

— Arthur Erickson

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Martial arts was founded on the spirit that it's not only a sport, but a way of life.

— B. J. Penn

Treat everyone with love and respect because they are your brother or your sister.

— Ryron Gracie

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Art of Racing in the Rain--Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.”

— Garth Stein

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid…

— Anais Nin

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting…

— Sheryl Crow

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

— Kanye West

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence…

— John Updike

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest

— Claude C. Hopkins

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

— Tina Weymouth

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I…

— Warren Ellis

Do you know what's most interesting? Working with the very strong restrictions of the institution. In the Renaissance, the aristocrats would order…

— Marina Abramovic

The private person Tom Neuwirth and the art figure Conchita Wurst respect each other from the bottom of their hearts. They are…

— Conchita Wurst

“I should like to make life beautiful--I mean everybody's life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to…

— George Eliot

From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals…

— Aldous Huxley

Since my Dad was an artist, I grew up around art shows and openings and that had a big impact on me…

— Christian Hosoi

Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its…

— Malvina Hoffman

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st…

— John Donne

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful.…

— Henry Steele Commager

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

— Anonymous

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

— Jerry Saltz

I honestly believe art and music saved me. Art and music saved my life. I am blessed.

— Goldie

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The art of dressing is the art we all practice

— Anne Hollander

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

— Penelope Hobhouse

Artist, be brave! Go and make the most of what you do best!

— Ana Tzarev

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

— Anselm Kiefer

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

— Nicolas Malebranche

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

— Chick Corea

When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

— Ryron Gracie

“There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!”

— Fossil Mountain Publishing Editor

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

— Simon McBurney

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

— Leonard Cohen

The art of making art, is putting it together…

— Stephen Sondheim