Art Quotes · Page 160

As a pop artist by definition, you have to learn to adapt.

— Pedro Capo

“Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.”

— The Prolific Penman

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

— Agnes Martin

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Never judge a work of art by its defects. They same is true with people.”

— José N. Harris

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

— Lynn Whitfield

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

— Marcus Aurelius

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

— John Updike

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like…

— Immortal Technique

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible…

— Jamila Woods

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

— Ai Weiwei

Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup.

— Anonymous

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

— Bruce Lee

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that…

— St. Lucia

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

— Oscar Wilde

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story…

— Anish Kapoor

You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that…

— Grayson Perry

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity…

— Margaret Mead

Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never…

— Armand Trousseau

My mom being raised in England, her father always wanted to pursue the arts and wanted to have a stage career in…

— Jovan Adepo

In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance.…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all…

— Iannis Xenakis

I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design…

— Dawn Richard

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

— Joe Simon

I think all martial arts have a brutality to them.

— Gareth Evans

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

— Harold Rosenberg

“Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.”

— Lori Lesko

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

— Frank Gehry

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

— Gutzon Borglum

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

— Dianne Reeves

“The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.”

— Pearl Zhu

All great artists have some spiritual backing.

— Mase

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

— Michael Steinhardt

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

— Swami Vivekananda

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

— Ayn Rand

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

— Peter Greenaway

I'm a mixed martial artist, and I have no problem to fight wherever the fight goes.

— Merab Dvalishvili