Art Quotes · Page 140

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

— Andre Malraux

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

— Lewis Baltz

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

— Pauline Kael

I love putting the music together. It's like art

— Erykah Badu

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

— Rajneesh

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

— Mas Oyama

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

— Rita Ora

“Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.”

— Criss Jami

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

— Robert Hughes

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

— Tom Jaine

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

— Ai Weiwei

The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me…

— Sam Smith

Woah, all these broken hearts on that pole, Man if pole dancers are art you know how many fuckin artists I know.

— Drake

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an…

— Eric Maisel

My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.

— Luc Besson

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

— Willa Cather

“Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“{ Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } On…

— Owen Miller

O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee!…

— Anselm of Canterbury

“He wore a mask of elegance and indifference, his unusually handsome features taking on the appearance of a sculpture. But I had…

— Karina Halle

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in…

— Rafael Sabatini

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than…

— Katherine Anne Porter

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the…

— Sloane Crosley

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that…

— Charles Spurgeon

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

If I wasn't doing music, I would be a makeup artist.

— Jessie James Decker

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

— Thomas Yalden

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

— Christo

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

— Jerry Saltz

“...don't tear people down just because they criticize your art.”

— Tyler Hojberg

“The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.”

— Blaise Pascal

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

— Hans Asperger

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

— Clement Greenberg

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

— Julia Cameron

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

— Chip Kidd

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

— William Blake

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

— David Steindl-Rast

I asked her for Adidas and she bought me Zips.

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

— Yoko Ono