Art Quotes · Page 1,932

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

— Auguste Rodin

I really love New York, and I've lived here for a long time. I know not just the different neighborhoods but the…

— Neil Burger

Having trained in theatre, that is what I enjoy most as it gives the scope to grow as an artist with every…

— Rohini Hattangadi

For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of…

— Alexander Alekhine

“In essence, Ficino’s philosophy elevated the liberal arts, pure scientific research, and the centrality of the individual and his or her immortal…

— Benjamin Blech

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

— James Gunn

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

— Maynard James Keenan

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

— Max Beerbohm

Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.

— Jonny Lang

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of…

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely…

— Anonymous

Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

— Joyce Carol Oates

“do you want to know how to seduce the night? this is not a poem about the stars or the moon because…

— Christopher Poindexter

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing…

— Michelangelo

Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was…

— Varg Vikernes

I count my time by times that I meet thee; These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons, And nights, these are my…

— Richard Watson Gilder

Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.

— Morihei Ueshiba

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

— Cise Star

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for…

— Jane Campion

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

— Santiago Calatrava

[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot…

— Garry Winogrand

It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if…

— Ma Yansong

I love doing my podcast, but it's not my art form. I don't have to work on it. It's off the cuff.

— Ari Shaffir

With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a…

— Charlie Wilson

“I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space…

— Abhijit Naskar