Art Quotes · Page 178

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

— Hesiod

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies.

— Romain Rolland

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

— Jean Toomer

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

— Jackson Browne

Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

— Fred Allen

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

— Adrienne Rich

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

— Edith Sitwell

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

— Michael Dirda

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

— Damien Hirst

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am.…

— Yolanda Adams

My goal there on the business side of things is to become the Dr. Dre of social media. He was mentoring younger…

— Jake Paul

I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“If I were silent and invisible, I’d fear nobody. And if I were tasteless too, not even the cannibals or modern art…

— Jarod Kintz

“The science of dieting is in the calories; the art of dieting is in what they come from.”

— Martin Cizmar

The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes

— Kevin Brownlow

If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the…

— Edward Gibbon

There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight…Let us create vessels and sails…

— Johannes Kepler

O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But…

— Ephrem the Syrian

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if…

— Maya Angelou

“It is the voice of everyday people, rather than of a self-conscious 'artist', that we hear in Caedmon's Hymn, and in such…

— Ronald Carter

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated…

— Rebecca West

When we were discussing 'Holby City, 'I told the producers that I wanted the Art Malik character to be honourable, and my…

— Art Malik

All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and…

— Rajneesh

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

— Yoko Ono

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

— Hermann Broch

“Originality is the art of hiding your source”

— Harry Roolaart

I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

— Nat Wolff

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

— Milan Kundera

“Emotions of every color create the rich work of art that is life.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”

— William Everson

You grow up with a lot of art and musicality within the Mormon church.

— Sophie Thatcher

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

— Anonymous

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

— Sammy Hagar

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

— Otto von Bismarck

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

— Al Hirschfeld

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

— Andy Murray

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

— Albert Einstein