Art Quotes · Page 221

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

— James Montgomery

I was never the one that really wanted to be a solo artist, I was always in groups.

— Tweet

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

— Marina Abramovic

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

— Mos Def

I really am in love with the idea of an artistic signature.

— Porter Robinson

Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.

— Noel Coward

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

— Valerie June

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

— Hippocrates

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

— Robert Henri

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians…

— John Olsen

“Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness…

— Anne Brontë

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

— Baker Brownell

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

— Carol Bly

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

— Amos Lee

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with…

— Rachel Cusk

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids…

— Guillermo del Toro

Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, "Let's let the next…

— Stan Lee

Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of…

— Barbara Abercrombie

I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting…

— Kehinde Wiley

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

With 'Black Panther,' black artists were provided with the opportunity and agency to create art that captures the full range of their…

— Clint Smith

I don't consider myself a great singer--but I have a connection with the audience. There's the artist, and then a void and…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

— Poul Henningsen

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“If you don’t learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!!!”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

— Claire Danes

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

— Kyffin Williams

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

— Margaret Atwood

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

— Jim Lee

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

— Rachel Kushner

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

— Peter Altenberg

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

— Charles Simic

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

— Friedrich Schiller

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

— Guy Laliberte

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

— E. M. Forster

I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.

— Virgil Abloh