Art Quotes · Page 84

Like books, artists have their fates.

— Norbert Lynton

Art is anything you can get away with.

— Marshall McLuhan

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

— Lionel Trilling

The great artist takes what he needs.

— Kenneth Clark

Art must not serve might.

— Karel Capek

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

— William Hazlitt

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

— Ben Jonson

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

— Grayson Perry

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

— Christian Boltanski

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When I perform or have work, I get my makeup done by an artist.

— CL

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

— Charles Baudelaire

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

— Chuck Close

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

— e. e. cummings

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's…

— Charlton Heston

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful…

— Aldo Leopold

“Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It’s the writer’s job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make…

— Thomas Canty

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

— Lou Reed

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

— Alexander Kotov

“I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.”

— David Foster Wallace

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

— Annie Lennox

I want to expose myself to different streams arts - music, cinema and dance - and allow myself to grow.

— Akshara Haasan

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world…

— Katie Kitamura

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

— Daniel Cudmore

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art…

— Georges Braque

My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried…

— Mat Kearney

“They fashioned a tomb for thee, O holy and high one The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies! But thou art…

— Epimenides Cretica

I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to…

— John Travolta

There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument…

— Wang Jianwei

“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Technology is the art of the possible.”

— Bee Wilson

Great artists have no country.

— Alfred de Musset

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

An experience without words is eternal

— Melody Minagar

I think art breaks down otherness.

— Dee Rees

Legislation is the art of compromise.

— Harry Reid

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

— Maxwell Maltz

The arts safeguard our culture.

— Adrian Lester