Art Quotes · Page 170

“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.”

— Christopher Moore

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

— Michelle Visage

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

— Edgar A Shoaff

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

— Baruch Spinoza

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

— Joseph Campbell

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

— Big Freedia

I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

— Fred Tomaselli

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to…

— Michael Jackson

Sometimes an artist can be good and they don't get the response or the attention that they deserve.

— Koffee

I feel I'm the most reallest black artist in England 'cause I give it to you how it is, whether I'm embarrassed…

— Mark Morrison

Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the…

— Brett Gelman

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create…

— Madonna Ciccone

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and…

— Charles Ray

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

— Walter Benjamin

“Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk…

— William Shakespeare

“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and…

— Lloyd Alexander

Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension…

— Andrea Dworkin

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You…

— Brian Hodge

As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative…

— John F. Kennedy

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go…

— Malcolm Mclaren

You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I…

— Devendra Banhart

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

— Joanna Russ

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

— Iris Murdoch

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,

— John Maeda

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

— Anonymous

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

— Robert Breault

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

— Kali Uchis

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned.”

— Florence King

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

— Jonathan Lethem

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

— Amanda Palmer

Don't confuse the art of the possible with the art of the profitable.

— David Tansley

In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.

— Theo van Doesburg

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

— Kyle Dunnigan

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

— Johan Renck

Dance like any other art form has no language.

— Shakti Mohan