Art Quotes · Page 226

“A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.”

— Amit Kalantri

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

— Jerzy Kosinski

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

— James A. Michener

A friend of mine put me in contact with the artist Baaba Maal.

— Ludwig Goransson

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

— Frederick Sommer

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

— Lancelot Law Whyte

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

— Carl von Clausewitz

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

— Lee Simonson

If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking…

— Catherine Yass

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard…

— Nick Cave

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built…

— Buenaventura Durruti

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person…

— Howard Jacobson

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

— Craig Owens

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite…

— W. H. Auden

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

— Bronislaw Huberman

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

— Branford Marsalis

As far as what made it on there [The Art of Elegance record], it was tough. It's probably one or two songs…

— Kristin Chenoweth

Weirdly, an image of Adrian’s Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness,…

— Richelle Mead

In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the…

— Kehinde Wiley

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending…

— Adam Lambert

The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art.…

— Nellie Melba

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time…

— Jim Lee

I just really care about what people see. I want them to know that I'm working hard for this. The artists that…

— Bruno Mars

To meet an artist when they first start out is like having a seat on the 50-yard line and watching them get…

— Elvis Duran

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

— Anonymous

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

— Jan Tschichold

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

— Bruno Tonioli

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

— Bernard Rudofsky

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

— John Ruskin

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

— Henri Matisse

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

— Quintilian

“We inspire each other. Poets and Artists are best friends and muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

— Joanna Russ

Artistes don't grow old, instead they grow younger.

— Suresh Gopi

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

— Fairfield Porter

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

— Martha Graham

Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.

— Paresh Rawal

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

— Franz Grillparzer