Art Quotes · Page 150

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

— Roseanne Barr

We're the artist of our life, we shape things no one else can hear touch smell or see.

— Jeremy Limn

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

— Eddie Murphy

But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

— Skitch Henderson

I never tell my artists how to rap or how to approach a song. I let them do the song.

— Yo Gotti

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

— Jessie J

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

— David Furnish

“it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that make our heart sing.”

— Scott Hartley

I got a lot of artists, and I been dropping all my artists' projects, and they going up.

— Young Dolph

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

— Vivienne Westwood

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

— Isamu Noguchi

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

— Dario Fo

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

— Patti Smith

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a…

— James Vincent McMorrow

“Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you…

— Bob Ross

Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on…

— Calvin Seerveld

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either…

— Oscar Wilde

[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The…

— Denis Dutton

Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see…

— Anonymous

Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as…

— Eugene Ionesco

Meditation is the art of living with yourself. It is nothing else than that, simply that: the art of being joyously alone.…

— Rajneesh

“Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game.…

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

— Oscar Wilde

Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“LIVING your life and NOT acting it is the true art.”

— Mykyta Isagulov

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.

— Nancy Spero

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

— Aldous Huxley

TV artistes are far more professional and dedicated compared to film actors.

— Ranjeet

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

— Josh Schwartz

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking.

— Ozzy Osbourne

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.

— Petra Collins

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

— Leo Tolstoy

I made this in art class, with pen and watercolors

— Aly Johnson

I was supposed to go to art school, and my father wanted me to go to law school.

— Mike Espy

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

— Joseph Conrad

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

— Mitski