Art Quotes · Page 198

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

— Wilferd Peterson

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

— Wendy Carlos

Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.

— Yayoi Kusama

I fantasized that I went to art school with the Beatles.

— Kyle Gass

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

— Carroll O'Connor

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

— Kehinde Wiley

If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.

— Cornelia Parker

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

— Gavin Creel

“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,…

— Robert Gottlieb

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the…

— James Thurber

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it,…

— Jules de Goncourt

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art,…

— Vivek Shraya

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

— Nicholas Sparks

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

— Helio Gracie

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

— Simon Cowell

I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has…

— Guity Novin

I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site,…

— David Bowie

“ Je cherche le caractère dans chaque matière. Or le caractère de la céramique de gris est le sentiment du grand feu,…

— Letter to Madeleine Bernard (1889 Gauguin Paul

Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not…

— Mark Fisher

I did work at Christie's for a couple of weeks, getting ready for 'The Devil Wears Prada,' getting people coffee and doing…

— Anne Hathaway

When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible…

— Steven Morrissey

I'm sure scientists would point to specific brain chemicals, but I think love is actually a kind of magic. It's what allows…

— Theodora Goss

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

— Evelyn Underhill

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

— Harry S. Broudy

“Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.”

— Fritjof Capra

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

— William Shakespeare

The more I get to know more artists, the more they inspire me.

— J Balvin

Jeans are never appropriate for business unless you are a artist or cowpuncher.

— Roger Stone

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

— Paul Gauguin

“Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.”

— Iimani David

It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.

— Renzo Gracie

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

— Martha Graham

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

— James Howell

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

— Richard Attenborough

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

— George Bernard Shaw

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

— Anonymous

“Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul.”

— Eric Samuel Timm