Art Quotes · Page 251

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

— Andrew Lam

The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.

— Teller

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

— Elia Kazan

Bengal's indigenous art and craft is widely popular throughout the world.

— Sharmila Tagore

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

— Francisco Goya

“My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.”

— Andy Couturier

“The art of photography is all about capturing emotions not events.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

— Susan Sontag

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

— Douglas Sirk

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

— Auguste Rodin

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

— Bruce Lee

Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.

— Mark Spitz

The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a…

— Henry Moore

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art…

— John Fowles

This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.

— Lisa Lopes

When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.

— Wong Shun Leung

If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston,…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The fact is, such an undertaking [an album that reveals a little more of the artist's core insecurities and the reality of…

— Graeme Thomson

“Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying. And I'll generally take a stand-up mercenary who takes pride in…

— Anthony Bourdain

Dissent in art is a fundamental right. But if it is dissent about a book, a piece of art, and if you…

— Shabana Azmi

I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art…

— Invader

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to…

— Tim Burton

“You get my idea. Nothing of "artistic" literature about it, just straight medicine, a universal panacea, a fetish in a sense: if…

— Marcel Duchamp

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

— Luc Delahaye

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

— Gary Wright

“What is art except being the real estate agent of your own neuroses.”

— Guillaume Morissette

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

— Simon McBurney

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

— Leonard Cohen

“There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!”

— Fossil Mountain Publishing Editor

When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

— Ryron Gracie

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

— Chick Corea

The art of making art, is putting it together…

— Stephen Sondheim

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

— Seneca the Younger

“In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fight only after creating conditions for victory.

— Toyotomi Hideyoshi

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

— Marcel Proust

The arts are what humanize science and history.

— Danny K. Davis

I want to be a good person first and a good artist second.

— Kelsea Ballerini