Art Quotes · Page 197

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

“We are often more a piece of work than a work of art.”

— R.J. Grunewald

It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.

— Ian Harding

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

— Gunter Brus

“Art is not about beauty, art is an expression.”

— Vikram Roy

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

— Jonny Lang

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and…

— Craig Claiborne

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short…

— Simon Schama

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight.

— Hank Williams, Jr

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge…

— Cher Lloyd

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the…

— Brandon Boyd

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

— Dave Matthews

“Gustav's art isn't political," I said. "You of all people should know that." "All art is political. You of all people should…

— Elizabeth Hickey

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I…

— Cameron Crowe

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn…

— William Shakespeare

Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow - people will wake up and…

— Marco Rubio

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work…

— David Hockney

“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing…

— John Varvatos

Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking…

— Stephanie Coontz

When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated,…

— Gates McFadden

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

With each film of mine, I was learning about the art of movie-making.

— Priyadarshan

Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.

— Simone Giertz

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”

— Mark Simpson

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable

— Liz Phair

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

— Tony Bennett

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

— T. S. Eliot

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

— Oliver Herford

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

— Martin Firrell

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

— Alexander Woollcott

“The art of living is the art of compromise.”

— George Gissing

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

— Edward Abbey

As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.

— Will Cotton

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

— Anish Kapoor