Art Quotes · Page 261

When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

— Jonathan Groff

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

— Okakura Kakuzo

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

— Julia Cameron

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

— Marina Abramovic

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

— Jack Prelutsky

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

— Nietzsche

I hate it when I am singing a song and the artist gets the words wrong.

— Cuts And Scars

Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity'...Disability is an art. it's an ingenious way to live.

— Neil Marcus

The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through…

— Grant Shapps

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

— Roger Caras

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to…

— Xavier Niel

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does…

— Anonymous

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

— Samuel Goldwyn

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building…

— Ezra Pound

People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a…

— Kristen Wiig

I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what's going on in the present time, because the artist -…

— Stacy Martin

“Oh, mention it! If I storm, you have the art of weeping." "Mr. Rochester, I must leave you." "For how long, Jane?…

— Charlotte Brontë

There's the subreddits, the fan forums, fan fic, cosplay and fan art. Then there's breaking down the trailers, frame-by-frame, and breaking down…

— Iman Vellani

Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if…

— Kim Swift

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of…

— Ani DiFranco

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed…

— Robert Zemeckis

“Sabrina fair Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train…

— John Milton

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.

— Marina Abramovic

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.

— William Bernbach

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure.

— Michel de Montaigne

Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers.

— Gary Wright

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— E.E. Cummings

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

— Julie Taymor

Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me

— Lady Gaga

“Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.”

— Alain de Botton

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

— Marcel Duchamp

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

— Martha Rosler

“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,

— Dorothea Lange

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

— Romain Rolland

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

— Philipp Meyer

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

— Aaron Carter