Art Quotes · Page 132

There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

— Christoph Waltz

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

— Isabelle Adjani

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

— Stephen Gardiner

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

— Michelangelo

I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.

— Yungblud

“If art can help us grieve, can help us mourn, then lean on it.”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

— Andrea Riseborough

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

— Jessie J

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes…

— Ken Burns

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art…

— Marina Abramovic

My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.

— apl.de.ap

It is when you adapt that you truly grow. When you grow, you don't let your art become the breeding ground for…

— Shankar Mahadevan

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

— Jean Tinguely

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

— Alexander Pope

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to…

— Roger Ebert

“Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell.”

— Bryan Eisenberg

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just…

— Amy Adams

Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get…

— Mark Kostabi

“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties…

— Cheryl Strayed

You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you…

— Ruben Studdard

“I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I…

— Cath Crowley

I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception…

— Anna Kendrick

“Nevertheless, we react to one a bit differently than we do to Rothko’s hovering panels or Barnett Newman’s stripes, though Whistler does…

— John Updike

Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested…

— Martin Freeman

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

— Emile M. Cioran

I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.

— Jeff Gutt

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

— Marilyn Manson

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

— Steve Martin

“Immortality, thou art a chimerical bridesmaid of life.”

— Aporva Kala

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

— Jimmy Smits

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

— Edvard Munch

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

— Sun Tzu

You can create art that makes people feel better.

— John Seagall

“Mindfulness is the extremely difficult art of leaving the past and the future alone.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

— Mos Def

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

— Malcolm De Chazal

I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it.

— Will Arnett

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

— Saint Augustine

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

— Joel-Peter Witkin