Art Quotes · Page 231

I'm one of the strongest advocates for the arts you'll ever find!

— Mike Huckabee

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

— Willem de Kooning

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

— Jimmy Iovine

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

— Nathan Fillion

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

— Jackie Chan

“The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity.”

— Marijn Haverbeke

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

— Louise Bourgeois

“She is, nevertheless, true to those who obey her rules. Has not science proved that she is truthful? Has not art found…

— Kaiten Nukariya

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

— Marianne Elliott

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes…

— Michelle Stuart

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest,…

— Barbara Kruger

“Nudity is an art. Besides, art is only nudity... There’s no more art, only too much civilization. Art is barbarious... Art is…

— Raúl Ruiz

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

— Nellie McKay

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

— David Cage

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

— John French Sloan

Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere.…

— Julian Barnes

I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to…

— Steven Soderbergh

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to break the idea of what male performers are supposed to show, what performances girl groups are supposed to show.…

— Lee Tae-min

“Uh, hey, I got a idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's…

— Joss Whedon

“If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities…

— Nick Joaquín

True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer…

— Lars von Trier

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and…

— Arnold Aronson

I could never really see myself being a pop artist.

— Lari White

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

— Salvador Dali

In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential.

— Hilton Als

Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

— Antoine Rivarol

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

— Louise Bourgeois

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

— Edward Albee

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

— Anonymous

“Even a mole may instruct a philosopher in the art of digging.”

— Ernest Bramah

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

— Georges Braque

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

— Questlove

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

— Norman McLaren

“Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.”

— Norman Mailer

“Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn't see it, but digital eye can.”

— Chanaka Satharasinghe

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

— Brian Eno

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

— Niccolo Machiavelli