Art Quotes · Page 143

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

— David Denby

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

— Christian Marclay

I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.

— Chris Stokes

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

— Sun Tzu

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

— William T. Wiley

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

— Thomas Merton

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more…

— Ned Rorem

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

— Buster Keaton

The writing and recording process is what I enjoy, it allows me to be creative and work with different artists and producers.

— Bugzy Malone

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

— David Rockefeller

There is something about Dior that reminds me of New York City Ballet. They both have a classic, glamorous basis but are…

— Justin Peck

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now…

— Jean Pigozzi

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

The performance of Carnatic music is multi-dimensional and layered. A performance is at once an artiste's cathartic process of personal exploration and…

— Sid Sriram

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive…

— Jane Leavy

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How…

— David Foster Wallace

Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for…

— Douglas Adams

Sure we girls can wear pants now, and vote, and go to college, have a bank account, get a job that is…

— Cecil Castellucci

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to…

— Annie Leibovitz

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power…

— Paul Valéry

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

— Ansel Elgort

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

— Mel Brooks

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

— Anonymous

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.”

— Steven Pressfield

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

— George Sand

Art is not about something, Art is something

— Sarah Bernhardt

Faith is the art of holding on to things despite your changing moods and circumstances.

— Anonymous

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I was the first artist to put the national anthem on the charts, and I'm thrilled.

— Jose Feliciano

“Contentment is the art of counting your own blessings, not someone else’s.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“And trade is art, and art's philosophy, In Paris.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

— Patti Smith

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

— Josh Billings