Art Quotes · Page 225

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

— Craig Thompson

Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

— Aeschylus

“If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!”

— Alan J. Perlis

“To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.”

— Masha Gessen

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

— Swizz Beatz

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

— Amedeo Modigliani

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

— Jean Cocteau

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

— Terri Clark

“They overlook the possibility that brainstorming can be a skill, an art, more like playing the piano than tying your shoes.”

— Thomas Kelley

The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

— August Bournonville

“No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.”

— F.K. Preston

A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.

— Amy Sherald

I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe…

— Ravi Shankar

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That…

— Helen Frankenthaler

I want to put a stamp on music because all the best, all the people that I love or the best artists…

— Lola Young

What's depressing, in a way, thinking of Margaret Thatcher legacy - and she was no doubt great in many ways - but…

— Gregory Doran

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant…

— Pete Seeger

An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if…

— Kanye West

“Be not proud because thou art learned; but discourse with the ignorant man, as with the sage. For no limit can be…

— Ptahhotep

Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not…

— Julia Cameron

You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll…

— Andy Warhol

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning…

— Plato

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep…

— Jacob Bronowski

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

— Glenn Ligon

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

— Joseph Brodsky

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

— I. A. Richards

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

— William Shakespeare

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

— Charles Bukowski

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

— Christopher Ricks

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

— Elsa Barker

As an artist, I do not want to limit my skills to one medium alone.

— Javed Ali

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

— Diego Rivera

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

— Willem de Kooning

LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.

— Elvis Mitchell

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

— John Dewey

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

— David Coverdale

If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.

— Ken Jeong