Art Quotes · Page 34

I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45…

— Philippe Petit

The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has…

— Peter M. Brant

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been…

— Cory Arcangel

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

— Cornel West

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I…

— Robin Wright

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

— Frederick Busch

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them,…

— Jim Jarmusch

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

— Jimmy Cliff

I really tried to work out hard to emulate the look and feel of the character, and did my best to represent…

— Daniel Cudmore

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by…

— Mark Millar

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others…

— Leo Tolstoy

The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is…

— Raymond Chandler

I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is…

— John Zorn

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

— Chuck Jones

I just want to be written about as a normal artist

— Robert Mapplethorpe

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

— Ray Kurzweil

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

— Epicurus

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

— Peter Greenaway

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

— Mike Patton

“She was a work of art. Jared saw the paint and the canvas and a few pleasant shapes. Ace felt the earth…

— Kit Rocha

My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts…

— Russell Crowe

Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very…

— John Corabi