Art Quotes · Page 155

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke

— Steve Martin

Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.

— Elif Safak

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

— Austin O'Malley

There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

— Joni Mitchell

“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”

— Pablo Piccasso

It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it.

— Lee Hammond

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

— John Edgar Park

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

— George Tooker

“I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.”

— William Shakespeare

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art…

— Charles Nodier

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative…

— Andre Malraux

The purpose of VEVO is to continue the tradition of corporations preventing artists from making money on their art.

— Poppy

I look at the artists as mini media companies, like if Beyonce is ESPN and Lady Gaga is Discovery.

— Steve Stoute

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma…

— Donovan

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

— Jackson Pollock

“Every flower that gives its fragrance to the wandering air leaves its influence on the soul of man. The wheel and swoop…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows…

— Marcel Duchamp

The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I…

— Karan Bajaj

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest…

— Michel de Montaigne

I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever,…

— Patrick Stump

The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They…

— Darold Treffert

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming…

— Tyga

“Part of the reason I actually preferred Twin Peaks's second season to its first was the fascinating spectacle of watching a narrative…

— David Foster Wallace

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

— Robertson Davies

Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

— Bruno Dumont

You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.

— Roger Hodgson

While I write for myself, I also write for other artists too.

— Jay Sean

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

— Sun Tzu

I work hard, whether it comes to writing for my own project or another artist.

— Benji Hughes

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

— Heidi Klum

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

— Ovid

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

— Jack White

To love someone, you must first understand the art of loving yourself...

— Riti Ghatourey

“I'm in a dark place It's really pretty here”

— April Barnhill

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

— Brian Selznick

“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

— Hubert Selby, Jr