Art Quotes · Page 232

Often times, it's the missteps that make it brilliant

— Melody Minagar

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

— Walter Kirn

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

— Terence McKenna

“Everyone knew artists were all a little crazy”

— Kim Fielding

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

— Voltaire

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

— Gish Jen

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

— William Ralph Inge

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

— Julie Bowen

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single…

— Giuseppe Bianco

“In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.”

— Steve Maraboli

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

— Yoko Ono

I just see clothing as cloth, and I see it as art, and I see it as a way to express yourself…

— Rain Dove

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

— John Ruskin

“Given the way creation unfolds, how it builds to ever higher and higher works of art, can there be any doubt that…

— John Eldredge

Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this…

— M.I.A

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education…

— Ken Robinson

Every artist that becomes famous has a team, and needs to convince someone to believe in them enough to have others rally…

— Wendy Starland

We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we…

— Paul Klee

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at…

— Moby

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record…

— Janelle Monae

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I…

— William S. Burroughs

Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not…

— Aldo Leopold

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

— Anonymous

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

— Hans Hofmann

“You want me to explain myself! give me a brush, not a pen”

— Kathe Epp

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

— Kent Nerburn

“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

— Graeme Base

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

— Andy Warhol

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

— Michelangelo

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

— Meryl Streep

Bitch I hard, Im ballin Im globe trotting and my flow art my nigga, Im Mozart with it.

— Wale

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

— Robert Frost

“The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work.”

— Oscar Wilde

Thou art hunger, yo. Make with the starvation.

— Jackie Morse Kessler

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

— Iggy Azalea

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

— Bernard Baruch

It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

— Pipilotti Rist