Art Quotes · Page 202

No one gives you a manual as to how to be an artist.

— Griff

“Sketchbooks and journals are the street lamps that illuminate the artist's journey.”

— Neil Waldman

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

— Austin Osman Spare

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

— Christopher Bram

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

— Caspar David Friedrich

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

— Robert Henri

“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men!”

— William Shakespeare

I love art and finding different bits and bobs for the apartment; so, I'm adding all my personal touches to the house.

— Amy Jackson

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

— Robby Krieger

“I just wished they'd see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn't…

— H.M. Ward

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

— Giorgio Vasari

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the…

— Liu Dan

My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.

— Chesney Hawkes

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most…

— Sam Abell

“Don't love too blindly: blindly you will love if you love at all, but a little care is still possible to a…

— Thomas Hardy

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges…

— Federico Fellini

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess…

— Marcel Proust

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe…

— W. H. Auden

I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the…

— Robert Delaunay

“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

— Kenneth Clark

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

— Ray Davies

“Thou art guilty to ye foundations,thee shalt kiss burn in hell..”

— Himmilicious

We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.

— R. O. Blechman

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

— Joseph Addison

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

— Tim Burton

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

— Leo Tolstoy

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

— Nat Hentoff

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

— Eli Broad

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

— Warren Buffett

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

— Clive Bell

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

— Ana Mendieta

Art problems are problems of human relationship.

— Josef Albers

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

— Nadia Ali