Art Quotes · Page 155

Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

— Judy Chicago

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

— H. G. Wells

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

— Lloyd Alexander

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

— Lee Norris

When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.

— Martin Parr

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

— Russell Simmons

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

— Tennessee Williams

“Jobs had perfected the art of turning product launches into theatrical productions,”

— Walter Isaacson

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an…

— Robert Henri

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is…

— Annie E. Clark

A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.

— Ashton Sanders

You still have these artists who go on tour that are 60, still getting loved by the young [fans] as well.

— Raekwon

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

— William Osler

I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting…

— Evangeline Lilly

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Everything evolves. I'll always sing ranchera, but as an artist, you want to explore, to do the most that you can.

— Vicente Fernandez

The way I write music for other artists is the same way I write music for myself. I'll pick up the guitar,…

— Bibi Bourelly

Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde -…

— Ryan Kavanaugh

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular…

— Edouard Vuillard

Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians,…

— Harold Rosenberg

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As…

— Ai Weiwei

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this…

— Friedrich Schiller

It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to…

— Paul Strand

“He died at forty-two. I was there to collect his talent. I was there at the hospital deathbed of my beloved Billie…

— Mitch Albom

The art of happiness is an art of seeing the beautiful sides of life

— Christine

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

— Jack Kerouac

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

— William Whewell

“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.”

— Norbert Wiener

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

— Oscar Wilde

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

— Louisa May Alcott

I don't have a make-up artist and I don't need a stylist.

— Princess Nokia

In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

— John F. Kennedy

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

— Beatrice Wood

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

— Irving Stone

I am not well-acquainted with the names of Indian artists.

— Liz Mitchell

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

— Kehinde Wiley

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

— John French Sloan