Art Quotes · Page 127

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

— Richard MacDonald

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

— Kevin Spacey

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

— Tulisa

“Art is the only proof we have that we told the truth.”

— Rob Ryser

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

— Natalie Portman

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

— Barbara Kruger

I don't have actors in my family, but everyone is pretty artistic.

— Timothy Simons

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo…

— Michelle Chamuel

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

— Park Won-soon

Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

— John Masefield

“Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to…

— Tom Robbins

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated…

— Kató Lomb

Shes an artist, a painter actually. See that smile on her face? Its her most famous piece!

— Anonymous

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate…

— Michael Adam Hamilton

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend…

— Banksy

Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or…

— Marian Keyes

Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire…

— Eric Maisel

I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an…

— David E. Cooper

I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be…

— Marjorie Liu

And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was…

— Kim Gordon

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement,…

— Lisa Frank

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested…

— Jandy Nelson

“It is a downright brilliant art to be ,successful quiet, in a bright noisy world.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.”

— Destiny Allison

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

— Wangechi Mutu

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

— Margaret Atwood

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

— Richard Blanco

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

— Kelly Lynch

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

— Camille Paglia

“Art can help us reclaim a sense of wonder in our lives.”

— Ivan Fernandez

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

— Arnold Schoenberg

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

— Iris Murdoch

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

— Sam Kinison

“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.”

— Marc Chagall

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

— Isamu Noguchi

Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making.

— Scott Borchetta

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

— Ritchie Blackmore