Art Quotes · Page 268

I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.

— Kehinde Wiley

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

— E. B. Lewis

I don't watch any other comedy, I don't study stand-up as an art.

— Michael McIntyre

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

— Kris Saknussemm

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

— Joseph Campbell

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

— Amanda Seyfried

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

— Keith Haring

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

— Chaim Potok

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

— David Guetta

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

— Elliot W. Eisner

Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

— Banksy

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the…

— Susan Sontag

I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and…

— Lisa Frank

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

— Jack Bowman

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know…

— Jackie Mason

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity…

— Rudolf Arnheim

“The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes…

— Elfriede Jelinek

“Why hadn't she just said yes? Then she could have driven alone back to the city [...] and picked up some guy…

— Jonathan Dee

So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and…

— John Cage

“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect…

— Richard Yates

Luck plays no role in art world success. It's your own responsibility to create your success, which is a result of making…

— Mark Kostabi

We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is…

— Wong Kar-wai

One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But…

— Eric Kandel

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

— Willa Cather

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

— Hedy Lamarr

I always make music as an art - it's never been a product for me.

— Lil Peep

Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.

— Peter Marino

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

— William Blake

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

— Hayden Christensen

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.

— Prince

I don't think art is bound by language or country.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

— Bruce Lee

So must the artist do in working at the nude.

— Antonio Canova

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

— Henri Matisse

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

— Arne Glimcher

I don't think an artist does well without limitations.

— Hillman Curtis

“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.”

— Albert Camus

I grew up watching Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow. I dreamed of working in the arts.

— Lisa Haydon

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

— Russell Lynes