Art Quotes · Page 109

Artists don't have to starve any more.

— Jack Conte

Headline writing is an art form.

— Jennifer Lee

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

— Henry Moore

Now life is imitating art.

— Rakim

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

— Paul Cezanne

Art should be born from the materials.

— Jean Dubuffet

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

— Mos Def

So must the artist do in working at the nude.

— Antonio Canova

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

— Arne Glimcher

I don't think an artist does well without limitations.

— Hillman Curtis

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

— Keith Haring

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

— Amanda Seyfried

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

— Joseph Campbell

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

— Chaim Potok

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

— Willa Cather

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics,…

— Herbert Gold

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

— Rita Dove

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

— Keanu Reeves

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is…

— Victor Hugo

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

— Victor Hugo

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God…

— Caitlin Thomas

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

— Berenice Marlohe

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

— Sarah Lacy

Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there…

— Lynn Shelton

To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who…

— Lenny Kravitz

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,…

— Robert Smithson

The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of…

— Joseph Fourier

Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on…

— Paul Robeson

“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.…

— Greg Iles

Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance…

— David Bayles

“The gaze of others is quite without indulgence for our defects and that of Mantegna is pitiless. I am grateful to him.…

— Marie Ferranti

Art is what you can get away with.

— Andy Warhol

Time is not important, but art is.

— Edward Betts

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

I can concentrate on my art.

— Lou Reed

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

— John Lennon

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.

— Sheena Easton

Every human being is a work of art.

— Wolf Vostell

Life is an art work without an eraser.

— Anonymous