Art Quotes · Page 259

To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston.

— Rene Ricard

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

— Rene Magritte

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

— Joachim du Bellay

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

— Marisa Tomei

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

— Morena Baccarin

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say

— Anonymous

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

— Auguste Rodin

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

— Mason Cooley

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the…

— Albert Camus

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

— Walter De Maria

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes…

— Bella Thorne

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind…

— Nile Rodgers

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested…

— Warren MacKenzie

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

— William Blake

The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is…

— Isaac Hanson

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists.…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“And all this culture, all this art, was simply a trick. It allowed us to pretend that human beings were noble, intelligent…

— Gordon Reece

“Artificial intelligence is often described as the art and science of “getting machines to do things that would be considered intelligent if…

— Sherry Turkle

I believe in an artiste's life, there are two kinds of awards - first is the appreciation and good wishes he or…

— Sharmila Tagore

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually…

— Kendrick Lamar

“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind…

— Mark Cantrell

I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these…

— Jonas Salk

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and…

— Pedro Reyes

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

— Jorge Luis Borges

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

— Paul Simon

“THE one measure of worth is the art one inspired.”

— Brian S Woods

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

— Robert Hughes

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

— Sol LeWitt

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

— Ellar Coltrane

Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential.

— Sebastian Lelio

“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]”

— Michel de Montaigne

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

It's much better for an artist to know everything than to be limited by ignorance.

— Phoebe Gloeckner

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

— Mirka Mora

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

— Howard Pyle

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

— Christine McVie

I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.

— John Cameron Mitchell

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I was trained in rap. I was trained in martial arts.

— Jackson Wang