Art Quotes · Page 195

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

— Yann Martel

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

— Samuel Beckett

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

— Maya Angelou

I'm an artist because of how I do things, not because I'm trying to be one.

— The-Dream

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

— Giorgio Vasari

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

— Russell Simmons

If I have extra money, I always love to support my friends who're making art.

— Petra Collins

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

— Thomas Kinkade

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at…

— Michael Hersch

Cinema brings together people from all walks of life. It connects everybody. It's an art in motion.

— Sowcar Janaki

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

— Carrie Brownstein

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs…

— Stanley Spencer

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

— Reba McEntire

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

— Jon Gordon

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and…

— Zoe Kravitz

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement…

— Eve Ensler

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing…

— John F. Kennedy

“The point is that you have here a direct, unmistakable assault on sanity and decency; and even - since some of Dali’s…

— George Orwell

There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio.…

— Laura Owens

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that…

— Pablo Picasso

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.…

— James Weldon Johnson

“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the…

— David Levithan

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

— Ai Weiwei

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

— Damien Hirst

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

— Saul Williams

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

— Sarah Jessica Parker

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

— Gunter Grass

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

— Liz Phair

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

— Molly Shannon

Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.

— Henri Matisse

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

— Julia Cameron

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.

— Kadir Nelson

“What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous?”

— Nenia Campbell

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

— Diego Rivera

Artistes should spread an agenda of inclusiveness.

— Arjun Mathur