Art Quotes · Page 162

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

“En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.”

— Murasaki Shikibu

He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!

— Sidney Howard

Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.

— Gichin Funakoshi

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

— Leonardo da Vinci

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

— Eric Clapton

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Thou art by nature a covenant-servant to sin and Satan.”

— William Gurnall

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have…

— Marla Sokoloff

If you are a musician, you practise your instrument every day, but actors can't be on a set every day. Theatre is…

— Kalki Koechlin

The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.

— Maria Konnikova

Our art form is TRULY a collaboration, and there are no unimportant members on any crew.

— Simone Missick

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go…

— Jackie Chan

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

— Ovid

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder…

— William Faulkner

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

— Ray Davies

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a…

— Louis Nizer

There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving…

— Pauley Perrette

Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all…

— Hans Hofmann

Love weaves a million pictures, And to teach you the art, you need no teachers. You are bound to have your highs…

— Anonymous

I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful.…

— Pablo Casals

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you.…

— Richard Ford

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that…

— Doris Salcedo

You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world…

— Alan Moore

“Get to the next level by learning the art of investing in people.”

— Shandel Slaten

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

— Tom Stoppard

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.

— Gary Holland

O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!

— Thomas William Parsons

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

— Emile Zola

“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name

— William Shakespeare

My career would not exist if not for the arts in the schools when I grew up.

— Philip Bailey

“Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.”

— Jay McInerney

“Art has no rules. That's what makes it art.”

— Grace-Naomi

“Forget self pity, live life! Be the artist of your own life.”

— Gyomay M. Kubose

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

— Oscar Wilde

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

— Richard Avedon

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

— Plato

Dancing with you is the best form of art To express my feelings from the very start

— Arielle Aguinaldo De Jesus