Art Quotes · Page 121

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

— Anonymous

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

— Rachel Bloom

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

You never know what can happen if you get sampled by the biggest artist in the world.

— Frank Dukes

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

— D. H. Lawrence

A Lot More Me' is the culmination of 10 years of work as a drag artist.

— Violet Chachki

People become stronger because they have memories they can't forget.

— Anonymous

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

— Jimmy Carl Black

“Anyone who follows others never passes them by, and anyone who does not know how to do good works on his own…

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

— Phil Everly

Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.

— Andrea Dworkin

I knew exactly what to do in The Seekers but I didn't know what it would be like to be a solo…

— Judith Durham

“However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary…

— Yukio Mishima

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see…

— Robert Henri

I don't want to just be known for shuffling. I love shuffling, but it's just the beginning of the legacy I want…

— Sky Blu

Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's…

— Reggie Watts

What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of…

— Rei Kawakubo

I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live…

— Eliot Lewis

I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage…

— Billy Corgan

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called…

— Brenton Thwaites

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough…

— Lorraine Hansberry

“The Neo-Pagan Ten “Commandments” 1. Thou art God/dess. 2. As above, so below; as within so without. 3. Spirit abides in all…

— Marian Singer

The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.…

— Samuel Beckett

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Learn making friends, making art, making time, making love. It'll take you a long way.

— Anonymous

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

— Hilda Doolittle

“Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John.”

— William Shakespeare

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

— Logan Pearsall Smith

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

— Norman Rockwell

Consuming art should involve investment and risk.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

— William C. Brown

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

— Mason Cooley

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

— Margaret of Valois

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

— Eric Idle