Art Quotes · Page 60

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Art has never been a popularity contest.

— James Levine

Art is a way of survival.

— Yoko Ono

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

— William Shakespeare

“Thou art a votary to fond desire”

— William Shakespeare

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

— Ciaran Hinds

Make friendship a fine art.

— John Wooden

I'm a knockout artist.

— Jimi Manuwa

I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.

— Cornelia Parker

As a successful artist it is my job to give the indie scene as much of a push as I can.

— Badshah

Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

— Jimmy Iovine

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

— Carlton Cuse

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

— Billy Sunday

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

— Anonymous

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

— Daniel Bell

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

— Clement Greenberg

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

— Takeshi Kitano

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

— Franz Grillparzer

It is essential for artistes to have that release of creativity, almost as necessary as eating food or drinking water.

— Akshaye Khanna

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us…

— James Dickey

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

— Le Corbusier

“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.”

— Steven Pressfield

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

— Al Stewart

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and…

— Abbi Jacobson

I think if you think of our lives as musicians, it's craftsmanship. We're not artists, we're more artisans. You know, I don't…

— David Prowse

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a…

— George Edward Woodberry

“Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces,…

— Diane Ackerman

I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk…

— Sharon Stone

To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally…

— Robert Grudin

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us,…

— John Maeda

When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not…

— James Arthur

“The music moves us very strongly, because it is moved, as it were; it captures, expresses, incarnates being profoundly moved. (Think of…

— James K.A. Smith

“Where thou art Gaius, I am Gaia,”

— Phyllis T. Smith

There is an art to making anybody go crazy.

— Benson Boone

Art is both creation and recreation.

— Lin Yutang

I don't like hype cluttering art.

— Skrillex

“It's Okay, I'm with me.”

— William Visher

Science is our century's art.

— Horace Freeland Judson

“Art thrives in times of uncertainty.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

— Garry Kasparov