Art Quotes · Page 89

Art should never try to be popular.

— Edward Albee

The temple of art is built in words.

— Anonymous

Art is an elastic sort of love.

— Josephine Baker

“If I had loved her... would that be art?”

— Sean O'Reilly

Self-creation is the highest art.

— David Zindell

I just call myself an artist, really.

— Tierra Whack

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

— Rico Nasty

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

— Louise Bourgeois

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

— Katharine Hepburn

Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.

— Genesis P-Orridge

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

— Gavin Newsom

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

— Max Jacob

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

— Daniel Breaker

“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.”

— Anonymous

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

— Josef Albers

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

— Regina Spektor

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

— Matt Wagner

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

— Dick Cavett

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of…

— Romany Malco

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

— Anonymous

“Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.”

— Lepota L. Cosmo

A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

— Randy Couture

Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is…

— Ernest Holmes

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we…

— John Leguizamo

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal…

— Louis Pasteur

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control…

— Alex Grey

I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts,…

— Natalia Tena

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might…

— Donald Barthelme

“To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and…

— James Joyce

No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason,…

— Frontinus

I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life,…

— Rupert Friend

To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better…

— Chester Bowles

Life too near paralyses art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

— Jean-Michel Jarre

All our knowledge is symbolic.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

— John Kurtz

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.”

— Anonymous

They're not dogs [poodles], they're art.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

I'm growing as an artist.

— YG