Art Quotes · Page 114

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

— Ellar Coltrane

Be where your enemy is not.

— Sun Tzu

“Ask very little but ask of everyone.”

— Michael Lerman

My body is a gradual work of art

— Rick Genest

You need a big ego to be an artist.

— Damien Hirst

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

It's not art, it's science.

— Billy Sheehan

Poetry is the scholar's art.

— Wallace Stevens

“Anywhere art visits turns into a gorgeous place!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

“philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art”

— Friedrich Schlegel

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

— Steve Sabol

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

— Michael Ventura

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

— Marcel Duchamp

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

— Joe Biden

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

— Jules Breton

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

— Maxine Greene

Art is the essence of beauty. The artist, a mute that practiced crying until he managed to shout free of dissonance.

— Mariana Fulger

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make…

— Lily Allen

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

— Tina Weymouth

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

— John Adams

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

— Golda Meir

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and…

— Ovid

The 'Art of Charm' podcast can be intimidating. Not just because it's the work of a lawyer called Jordan Harbinger. Not simply…

— David Hepworth

I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex…

— Andy Warhol

When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books.…

— Chath Piersath

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art…

— Casey Neistat

We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world…

— Bill T. Jones

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue…

— Michelle Obama

“I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go!…

— Serj Tankian

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A lot of artists need structure.

— Ryan McGinley

“Don't make it new; make it whole.”

— Alex Ross

“A woman's beauty should not imitate art.”

— Lionel Suggs

Learning is the art of ignoring.

— Elias Canetti

“ARTISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!”

— Olen Steinhauer

Merce is my favorite artist in any field,

— Jasper Johns

Music takes us where words cannot.

— Henry Winkler