Art Quotes · Page 131

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

— John Cage

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

— James Hetfield

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

— Kim Weston

There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.

— Clive Barker

I'm interested in making art that is available to everybody.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I feel every artist has a certain amount of fan following.

— Karishma Tanna

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

— Kenji Tomiki

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of…

— Pablo Picasso

For me, sampling is a high art. Most people don't see it that way, but it's a beautiful thing. I wouldn't know…

— JPEGMAFIA

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

— Raoul Peck

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for…

— Charlton Heston

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

— Joe Rogan

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

— Stephen Kinzer

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

— Gustave Flaubert

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has…

— Elizabeth Kenny

It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so…

— Walter J. Phillips

There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating…

— A. S. Byatt

Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply…

— Edward Weston

We use technology in service of the art, as a storytelling tool - and if we want to do something that's never…

— Travis Knight

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various…

— Leon Askin

It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say…

— Kimbra

“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which…

— Rebecca West

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us,…

— Craig Newmark

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

— William Bernbach

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

— Courtney Love

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

— Adam West

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

— Yip Man

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

— Breyten Breytenbach

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

— David Seabury

I'm 43 years old and I've never been injured doing any of my arts.

— Dean Potter

“Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.”

— Carol Brearley

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

— John Mayall

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

— John Henry Newman

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

— Carrie Brownstein

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

— Frank Iero

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

— Marcel Duchamp

“We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts.”

— James Joyce

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

— Salvador Dali

Wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown.

— Anonymous