Art Quotes · Page 187

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

— Brent Weeks

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

— Richard Ford

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

— Haruki Murakami

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

— Pablo Picasso

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

— Anonymous

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

— Terry Pratchett

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

— Jordan Gavaris

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

— Julia Cameron

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of…

— Hamish Linklater

Men view discussion as the art of trying to keep their wives quiet, women see it as the art of preventing their…

— Fritz Eckhardt

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make…

— Sandy Skoglund

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art…

— Thom Gunn

Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is…

— Kenneth Clark

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must…

— Paola Antonelli

Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a…

— Stephanie Crayencour

There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting…

— Yuna

All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“For something to become a work of art, a labeling process must take place that requires three participants: an artist who produces…

— Wyatt MacGaffey

Every martial art shares similiar things. There's only so many ways you can throw a punch and a kick but the way…

— Gareth Evans

... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an…

— Paul Theroux

Film is the only art form where we feel we have to title our stuff literally. Musicians don't have to title their…

— Sean Baker

People sometimes forget, music is an art, and that I am an artist..

— Melchor Lim

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

— Norah Jones

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple...

— Carlson Gracie

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

— Ludwig Bemelmans

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

— Robert Wilson

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

— Robert Hayden

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

— Thomas Jefferson

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

— Carmen Cusack

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

— Christopher Bram

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

— Austin Osman Spare

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

— Ray Davies

We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.

— R. O. Blechman

“Thou art guilty to ye foundations,thee shalt kiss burn in hell..”

— Himmilicious

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

— Kenneth Clark

“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men!”

— William Shakespeare