Art Quotes · Page 157

I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!

— Carlos Machado

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

— Paul Cezanne

It's because in the world of martial arts, Hard work will always surpass talent.

— Natsu Tanimoto- Hermit

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

— Patti LuPone

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

— Ian Somerhalder

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

— Robert Hughes

As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I've got respect for my mom, especially as a martial artist.

— Mike Perry

If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love.

— Gail Simone

Playing at the Opry, for me, it has such a history. It feels sort of like a coming-out party as a country…

— Aubrie Sellers

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a…

— Toni Onley

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

— Kenneth Myers

Artists from all over the world have had a lot of positive influence on me. Their works always inspire me.

— Jackson Wang

“Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high…

— Banksy

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build…

— John Wooden

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

— Anonymous

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more…

— Robert Musil

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle…

— Raymond Chandler

[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot…

— Garry Winogrand

I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a…

— Betye Saar

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at…

— Henry Moore

“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was…

— Milan Kundera

In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture…

— Baran Odar

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans…

— Brad Holland

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

— Garth Brooks

“I am the author of my Life and Lovestory, I wrote it in poetry”

— Patrick Cruz

Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.

— Tori Amos

“The impossible is what we achieve through art.”

— Eirene Evripidou

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

— Herbert Read

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

— Erica Jong

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

— Joseph Conrad

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

— Ai Weiwei

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

— Jan Vogler

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

— Emile Zola

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

— Stanley Crouch

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

— Yolanda King

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

— Mary Wigman

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

— Francis Bacon

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

— Philip Pullman