Art Quotes · Page 201

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

— Walter Darby Bannard

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

— Albert Camus

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

— Rex Reed

I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.

— Chance The Rapper

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

I think martial arts, when it's practiced with a complete idea, is a metaphor for life.

— Rickson Gracie

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

— Sun Tzu

“When diplomacy fails, whisper through Art and your message will echo for eternity.”

— Tom Althouse

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the…

— Jules Breton

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

— Sun Tzu

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw…

— Julia Cameron

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing,…

— Jane Hirshfield

“A large part of our artistic creativity, our political commitment and our religious piety is fuelled by the fear of death.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.

— Keri Hilson

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

— Laura Benanti

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations…

— Michael C. McMillen

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church.…

— Jeff Koons

I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it…

— Olly Murs

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But,…

— Tom DeLonge

“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do…

— James Joyce

“Writing isn't easy because you have to relieve the most painful moments of your life, over and over again, and then you…

— Cristian Mihai

Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making…

— Hunx

I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

— Ryron Gracie

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

— Pablo Picasso

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

I am dedicated to dancing, and I want to help spread this art form.

— Shobana

The UFC is martial arts and it's all about technique.

— B. J. Penn

When we separate music from life we get art.

— John Cage

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

— Barnett Newman

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

— Cornel West

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

— Jack Kroll

Music is now becoming 'free,' and it's very difficult for new artists to start.

— Peter Frampton

“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

— Pope Francis

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

— Samuel Johnson