Art Quotes · Page 1,918

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and…

— Lawren Harris

I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed…

— Michael Jackson

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

— Georges Braque

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Kyle Dunnigan

For me, acting is an art.

— Disha Patani

I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a…

— Adam DeVine

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or…

— William Gurnall

Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.

— Tovino Thomas

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of…

— Piet Mondrian

It used to be considered an art form to win a tournament without having to shove all your chips in the middle.

— Phil Hellmuth

Music is a living art. You re-create it.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

— Billy Joel

Gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B were what I felt connected to as an artist.

— Raye

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example)…

— Immanuel Kant

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

“[art] those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger…

— Donna Tartt

The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations.

— Andy Mineo

“Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the professional artist that can…

— Robin Sacredfire

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,…

— E. O. Wilson

People in Kolkata know me well for both commercial and art cinema.

— Rituparna Sengupta

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist…

— Jared Leto

It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to…

— Jack Nicholson