Art Quotes · Page 146

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

— Aristotle

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

— John Kricfalusi

“The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.”

— Kimon Nicolaides

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Learn the art of bringing your dreams alive within your own reality.”

— Steven Redhead

“An explorer is an explorer from love, and it is nature, not art, that makes him so.”

— Ernest Giles

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

— Romare Bearden

In Korea, I'm not a K-pop artist, I'm just an artist.

— Eric Nam

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine…

— Philip Kotler

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing…

— Terri Clark

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he,…

— Plutarch

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

— Plato

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

— Beck

From my father, I got more of the artistic, the human, the sweet part. From my uncle I really learned the business…

— Maurizio Gucci

I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an…

— Chloe Kohanski

“Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at…

— Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression,…

— Theodore Dalrymple

It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer…

— Donald Byrd

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as…

— Lewis Carroll

“The Cabbage White The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art…

— Robert Graves

“I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he...Art unfortunately is rarely…

— Harold Bloom

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always…

— Criss Angel

Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear,…

— Lawrence Bender

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

I want to say that Beck is incredible. He is an art machine.

— Devendra Banhart

“The art of small talk is all about finding common ground.”

— Anonymous

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

— Agnes Denes

Scott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best.

— Jim Hill

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

— Lou Reed

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.

— Danielle LaPorte

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

— Chris Robinson

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

— Rudyard Kipling

“Silence in the midst of chaos is an art that no man can understand!”

— Fahad Basheer

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

— Peter Sotos

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

— Mason Cooley

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

There are so many artists that have inspired me.

— J Balvin

My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.

— Sam Heughan

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Clarence Day