Art Quotes · Page 154

“What is art except being the real estate agent of your own neuroses.”

— Guillaume Morissette

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

— Gary Wright

“Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.”

— Danny Dover

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

— Erica Jong

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

— Ivan Turgenev

As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

— Georg Baselitz

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

— Jerry Saltz

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

— Anonymous

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,.

— Zhang Ziyi

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors…

— David Horowitz

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

— Michael Kimmelman

All the art that's in my house is my own, which is nice because I never have to worry about buying it.

— Carly Chaikin

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock…

— James Whistler

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

— Irving Stone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you &…

— Lana Del Rey

The most important part of my practice as an artist has been remembering to stay humble. There is so much hurt, so…

— Ezra Miller

But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,…

— Steve Almond

All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't…

— Diego Rivera

To me, a revolutionary film is not a film about a revolution. It has a lot more to do with the art…

— Tamer El Said

I believe that, your art is like a time capsule for where you were at, where your mentality was at, at that…

— Jon Connor

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and…

— Walker Evans

High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its…

— Aldo Leopold

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when…

— Yoko Ono

I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.

— La'Porsha Renae

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

— Paul Cezanne

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

— Ken Loach

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

— Paul Valery

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

— Will Youmans

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

— Maria Callas

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

— Robert Breault

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

— Paul Lockhart

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

“I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.”

— H.R. Wakefield

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

— John Zorn

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

— Paul Theroux

“And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.”

— Kate Chopin