Art Quotes · Page 171

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

— Jeanette Winterson

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

— George Eliot

There's no stopping and no limits on what musicians and artists can produce.

— Bhushan Kumar

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

“An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.”

— Lee Simonson

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

— Kiki Smith

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Isaac D'Israeli

“Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”

— Anonymous

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

— Master P

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on.…

— Billy Wilder

Why is love like art ? U see the flaws but the flaws are what makes it beautiful but some just see…

— Miranda

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

— Philip Yancey

Instead of speaking of men versus women, we should speak about artists rising at a worldwide level.

— Karol G

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

— Sue Grafton

“Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to…

— David Bayles

All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different.

— Henry Glassie

Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the…

— Manu Dibango

“Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive…

— Jay Woodman

I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for…

— Nick Lowe

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted…

— Thomas Carlyle

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which…

— Samuel Johnson

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music.…

— Willie Nelson

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it…

— Wassily Kandinsky

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

— Bret Michaels

Art and politics have many things in common.

— Tania Bruguera

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

— Brett Eldredge

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

— Edmund Waller

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

— Invader

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.

— Isa Genzken

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I really pay attention to makeup artists and what they do with me.

— Edith Bowman

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

— Calvin Seerveld

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

— Junot Diaz

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

— Lorrie Moore

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

— Rebecca West

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

— Mark Foster

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

— Andre Derain

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

— Federico Garcia Lorca