Art Quotes · Page 172

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

— Walter Legge

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

— Andrej Pejic

People think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

— Woody Allen

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

— Jules Renard

My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.

— Shaggy

Funeral is a celebration to remember the life's biggest con and grim is the artist !

— Myself

We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it.

— Steven Michael Quezada

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

— Kenny Chesney

Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for…

— John Dos Passos

We need, let's say, municipal digital platforms, for teaching, for schooling, for education, but also, of course, for the arts.

— Hito Steyerl

You always have those artists where they release one great record and then they're gone. But we achieved this overwhelmingly positive and…

— Richard Carpenter

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

— Gregory Crewdson

After giving up being a session/touring drummer I decided to pursue this crazy dream I had of being a solo artist.

— G Flip

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with…

— Abraham Maslow

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

— Talib Kweli

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame…

— Pat Martino

Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is…

— Walt Whitman

ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the…

— Jenna Wortham

Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them…

— Paul Strand

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be…

— Chris Kirkpatrick

My friend advised me to go into studying art, which at first shocked me because art was so easy. It was just…

— David Small

I am not a great artist like Maradona was with regards to on-the-field matters.

— Kaka

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

— Sergei Bongart

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

— Kesha

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

— Sarah Schulman

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

— Victor Pinchuk

The point of art is to shake people's minds and talk about real social issues.

— Ariana DeBose

God is the artist, nature is his canvas, and I'm just the admirer of his work.

— Elizabeth Homp

O delicious kiss, Why thou so sudden art gone? Lost in the moment thou art won?

— John Wolcot

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

— Stephanie Seymour

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

— Frances Harper

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

— Camille Paglia

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

— Barbara Boxer

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

— Del Close

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

— T Bone Burnett

Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.

— Mick Hucknall

“Life is closely related to science than art because it has more practicals”

— Samir Pradhan