Art Quotes · Page 222

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

— Pauline Kael

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

— Daniele Vare

I am not the perfect piece for your perfect art.

— Joantonette Morano

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

— Suzy Bogguss

I want to keep making cool projects and just keep being a part of just making cool art.

— Angus Cloud

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

— Gao Xingjian

“WHEN we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that because of our noble intentions everything…

— Pema Chödrön

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my…

— Mark Kostabi

“The golden section was discovered by the Egyptians, and has been used in art and architecture, most commonly, during the classical ages…

— Steven L. Griffing

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

— Steve Aoki

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

— Anonymous

“His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.”

— William Gibson

I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create…

— Martellus Bennett

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

— Dale Chihuly

I live for art. I love entertaining people, making them smile and think. I love to know that a little piece of…

— Jackson Rathbone

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15,…

— Michael Buble

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his…

— Gerald Scarfe

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to…

— Dorothea Brande

“I believe the greatest pleasure in writing is in the progressive artistry of it. Each project is an attempt to do better…

— Anonymous

I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the…

— John Kessel

I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free…

— Julie Dillon

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

— Peabo Bryson

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

— Georges Carpentier

“Art isn’t about where it ends up. It’s about the creation.”

— Lauren Dane

Well, everything you do in life you have to do if it's an art.

— MC Hammer

I may not be good at drawing but this is how I really draw what do yall think?

— Brianna Ramos

I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.

— Misty Copeland

As an artist you have to keep reinventing yourself.

— David Hammons

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

— Ana Castillo

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

— David Bailey

I don't really trust musical artists that don't also do visual art.

— Hunx

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”

— Claude Monet

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

— Edith Sitwell

“In life, like art, there has to be an essential sense of weirdness.”

— Jo Brunini

I love that President and Mrs. Obama are embracing the arts. I am so delighted.

— Julie Andrews

“The English artist likes line more than color or texture.”

— Neville Weston

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

— Anne Truitt