Art Quotes · Page 153

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

— Robert Hughes

“There’s something about doing a job well that is akin to art.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

— Johnny Winter

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

— Margaret Hughes

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

— Anonymous

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

— Claes Oldenburg

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

— Frederick Sommer

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

— Billy Corgan

“I prioritize my creative pleasure. I enjoy expressing my artistic side and receive the gifts of doing so.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

I don't think, as an artist, you should be trying to make music for every moment of someone's day.

— JP Saxe

“Relationships are set up to be imperfect. They are designed by the master creator of relationships to be flawed, to be forever…

— Julieanne O'Connor

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the…

— Kafu Nagai

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in…

— Lucy Dacus

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

— Christian Wiman

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell whether he knows it or not.”

— Steven Pressfield

I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what…

— Abigail Washburn

“How did he get his ideas? “I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than…

— Walter Isaacson

“Art is painful, Layla. It's potentially dangerous. Explosive. It takes everything from you, sometimes more than you can afford. It's a beast,…

— Saffron A. Kent

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about…

— Gus Van Sant

Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting…

— Marco Brambilla

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people…

— Austin Kleon

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the…

— Oscar Wilde

If your art is speaking to the moment, that's all you can hope for.

— Misha Green

“He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.”

— Khalil Gibran

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

— Novalis

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

— Herbie Hancock

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.

— Victor Vasarely

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

— Andre Kertesz

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

— Miuccia Prada

I'm obsessed with artists like Lady Gaga. I'm obsessed with artists like Lana Del Rey.

— Chloe Kohanski

2017 is going to be the biggest year for martial arts in the history of the Earth.

— B. J. Penn

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

— David Luiz

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

— John Ruskin

“Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.”

— Leo Tolstoy