Art Quotes · Page 175

Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.

— Stella McCartney

I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world.

— Martin Garrix

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

— Jacob Epstein

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

— Anonymous

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

— Wes Borland

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

— Anonymous

“The worst thing an artist can have is too much freedom.”

— Magdalena McGuire

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport.

— Tony Hawk

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels…

— Charles Spurgeon

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,…

— Leo Tolstoy

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture,…

— Andre Malraux

For me, what counts the most is my film. I can express myself and therefore take care of myself through my art.…

— Maimouna Doucoure

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and…

— Kofi Siriboe

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making -…

— Peter Zumthor

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

— Ai Weiwei

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

— Carlisle Floyd

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before…

— Haris Pasovic

Arriving home on a weeknight is guaranteed to be the least relaxing part of my day. The door opens, and two Tasmanian…

— Chris Morocco

From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war,…

— Daniel Webster

“Why don't you focus more on what makes you brilliant and less on what makes you angry? You are missing a key…

— Amy Harmon

You have to be ahead of your game, and in industry that is a different condition than in art. If you make…

— Ross Lovegrove

Insecurities and missteps can plague writers and artists who come from rural places. We worry that our provincial life experiences won't gain…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions,

— Marc Quinn

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

— Marcus Terentius Varro

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

— Bruce Nauman

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

— Denis Diderot

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

— Julia Cameron

“The Giles' edition of the ART OF WAR, as stated above, was a scholarly work.”

— Sun Tzu

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

— George Saunders

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

— Serge Schmemann

I am extremely proud of the fact that I have acted in art films.

— Shabana Azmi

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I like to mix things up and I take inspiration from many different art forms.

— Netta Barzilai

Art, location, money - I say as long as you've got one of them, you're fine.

— David Hewlett

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.

— Marilyn Ferguson

I love small weird art movies, and I love free mass entertainment.

— Patricia Arquette

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

— Yony Leyser