Art Quotes · Page 47

Every man is a fruit of natural arts.

— Jayjay Guillermo

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

— Andrew Marvell

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

— Salvador Dali

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso

Now life is imitating art.

— Rakim

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

— Paul Cezanne

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

— Henry Moore

Art should be born from the materials.

— Jean Dubuffet

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

— Lucian Freud

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.

— Donnie Burns

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

— Edward Abbey

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

— Madonna Ciccone

Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.

— Deepak Chopra

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance…

— Gary Inbinder

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

— Alan Greenspan

“Marshall McLuhan predicted books would become art objects at some point. He was right.”

— Woody Allen

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School…

— John Leguizamo

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

— Kiki Smith

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

— Greg Jackson

I am a comedian. I do feel I have to put my experience on a public stage. As an artist, that's what…

— David Baddiel

What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein…

— John Yau

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There…

— C.S. Lewis

It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You…

— Ursula Vernon

You're never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People…

— Benson Henderson

I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work…

— Joyce Tenneson

“You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you,…

— G. Norman Lippert

To be recognized by a brand like Reebok and to know that the company is looking at mixed martial arts shows the…

— Anthony Pettis

I've been working for this industry since I was 15, and every makeup artist I've known who's worth my time uses Jao…

— Logan Browning

Headline writing is an art form.

— Jennifer Lee

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

— Marcella Hazan

I think art can reflect tragedy.

— John Corigliano

Artists are great. They jump in.

— Richard Linklater

Artists don't have to starve any more.

— Jack Conte

I want to bring art into everything.

— Shawn Crahan

A working artist is a playing artist.

— Julia Cameron

When things get tough, make good art.

— Neil Gaiman