Art Quotes · Page 196

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

— Jeff Dunham

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

— Anne Clark

The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

— Berenice Abbott

That's what you want to do as an actor and as an artist: move an audience.

— Michael McElhatton

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

— Petra Collins

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

— Barry Eisler

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

— Rosanna Arquette

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing…

— Seth Godin

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have…

— Nick Cave

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

— Max Nordau

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more…

— Daniel Caesar

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

— Jamake Highwater

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.

— Daphne Guinness

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

— Muriel Barbery

I'm a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what…

— Lyoto Machida

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any…

— Alex Faickney Osborn

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive,…

— Georges Clemenceau

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are…

— Chris Carter

I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting…

— Olga Fonda

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity…

— Susan Sontag

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of…

— George Inness

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an…

— Richard Jefferies

In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his…

— Virgil Abloh

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

— Michel Foucault

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

— Kate Chopin

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

— Anthony Braxton

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

— Roger Ebert

“Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

— Willem de Kooning

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

— Erich Fromm

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

— Balthus

We learned how to look at art from religion.

— Grayson Perry

“She has wings the color of wild and a soul the color of art.”

— Melody Lee

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

— Sam Shepard

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

— Harry S Truman