Art Quotes · Page 116

“The art in question is much more about open communications.”

— Pearl Zhu

I think creating a recipe that tastes good is art.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

— Will Durant

“Think most of what matters. Think less of what doesn't.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

— Howard Pyle

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”

— C.S. Lewis

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

— Thomas Browne

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

— Cyril Connolly

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that…

— Richard Phillips

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us,…

— Ossie Davis

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes…

— Ansel Adams

I hate it when people call me a cage fighter. I'm a mixed martial artist. But people take one look at what…

— Michael Bisping

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

— Marco Brambilla

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

— Tamannaah

“Art doesn't have to make sense, little dhamphir. Besides, I'm supposed to be crazy, right?”

— Richelle Mead

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

— Thomas Carlyle

When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that…

— August Wilson

“All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in…

— Guillermo del Toro

“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an…

— Mark Morris

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,…

— Michael Jackson

It may be fine for an artist to be indifferent to the reaction of the viewer to a work of art. A…

— Richard Edelman

Just give us 50 years where we're the only ones who are allowed to profit from art, and then you can do…

— Hari Kondabolu

“Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater…

— William Saroyan

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

— Theodore Bikel

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

— Philip James Bailey

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

— Shobana

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

— William Faulkner

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

— Paddy Mitchell

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

— Laurie Anderson

Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.

— Vivek Shraya

The only thing that is not art is inattention

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

— Danny Glover

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

— Neville Marriner

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

— Melanie Martinez

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

— Bruce Lee

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

— Mark Rothko

I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

— Wendy O. Williams

I'll just let my work speak for itself, as every artist should.

— Ryan Braun