Art Quotes · Page 168

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

— Lisette Model

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

— Julia Cameron

The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.

— John Heilpern

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“God and chance belonged to art, eternity and labyrinths to science.”

— Roberto Bolaño

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

— Horace

I love white walls because white reflects the light and is a great backdrop for art.

— John Rocha

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

— Damian Loeb

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think…

— Kaytranada

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

— Friedrich Holderlin

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t…

— Steve Buscemi

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

— Terri Windling

I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed…

— Giles Deacon

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids…

— John Keats

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it…

— Truman Capote

In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never…

— Seth Godin

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived…

— Helmut Newton

For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world,…

— Grace Jones

While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

— Mark Twain

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.”

— Bam Zakariya

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— Andre Breton

There is an indefinable quality possessed by some artists. You simply can't explain it.

— Vera-Ellen

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

— Irving Stone

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

“He was well versed in the art of self-love.”

— Tina Ordone

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

— Robert Henri

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

— Mark Twain

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

— Irving Stone

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

— Julie Garwood

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

— Kip Winger

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

— Anish Kapoor

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

— Mike Svob

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

— Gustave Courbet