Art Quotes · Page 144

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

— Marcel Duchamp

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

— George Inness

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

— Dee Rees

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

— Bill Dedman

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.

— Devendra Banhart

With art, your motor sense should be developed at full capacity.

— Ruth Asawa

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

— Alfred Stieglitz

For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

Perhaps we could do without tragedy in art - but what about comedy? Is it a coincidence that so many of the…

— Tom Malinowski

TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

— Yvonne Strahovski

“Modern IT has many faces. Understanding the element of art in digital IT is for achieving the art of possible.”

— Pearl Zhu

I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and…

— Robert Del Naja

“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.”

— Kamand Kojouri

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I…

— Danny Aiello

“Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,…

— Ma Jian

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a…

— David Rockefeller

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs…

— Hasso Plattner

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand…

— Jeff Koons

“Robinson had long mastered the art of coming instantly awake, a skill which had proved invaluable when his children were young. He…

— Kerry Greenwood

Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have…

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as…

— Ouida

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things…

— William S. Burroughs

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

— Matthew Morrison

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

— Jason Isbell

Not every work of art connects with the audience.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

— Henry Threadgill

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

— Jim Leach

Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.

— Taika Waititi

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

— Thomas Leuthard

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.

— Hal David

I believe in the need for paying for art. Free shows must not be encouraged.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Interpretive thinking, as an art form, is dying.

— Josh Tillman

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

— Peter York

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

— Paracelsus

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

— Philipp Meyer

I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was - I survived Def Jam.

— Black Thought

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

— David Ben-Gurion