Art Quotes · Page 239

“Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.”

— Hugh MacLeod

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.

— Nuno Oliveira

I think Banksy is a very cool artist, and I respect his social messages.

— Kim Rossmo

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

— Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

— Joseph de Maistre

“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.”

— Daniele Vare

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

— Shelley Berman

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

— Erykah Badu

I will not bow down to others' perceptions of me; I will only rise in the name of art, love and music.

— Maria Brink

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

— John Dewey

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

— Lucinda Williams

Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

— Pramila Jayapal

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

— Michelle Zauner

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's…

— Zoe Akins

I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal…

— Betty Who

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or…

— Raymond Pettibon

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through…

— Albert Einstein

Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II…

— Peter Marino

It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if…

— Ma Yansong

We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky…

— El-P

I decided that love, like all relationships, is a form of art. You can only keep beautifying it by constant attention and…

— Anonymous

Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or…

— Michael Ayrton

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

— Albert Camus

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

— Ezra Pound

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

— Stephen Sondheim

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

— Bruce Nauman

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

— Marya Mannes

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,

— Bran Ferren

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

— Auguste Rodin

“One who lives out of the box must learn to master the art of homelessness.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

— Abel Stevens

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

— Lucinda Williams

“Christ, dealing with you is like rewriting The fucking Art of War,’ he grumbled...”

— C.C. Gibbs

If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.

— Miyamoto Musashi

“What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night so stumblest on my counsel?”

— William Shakespeare

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

— Banksy

“There are no Rules in Art . . .Only Creativity”

— Edna Stewart

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

— Pedro Reyes