Art Quotes · Page 274

“A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

— John F. Kennedy

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

— Johnny Van Zant

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

— William Morris

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

— Pablo Picasso

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

— Manisha Koirala

I have my own label and I'm my first artist.

— Jeff Gutt

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

— Grandma Moses

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough…

— Anish Kapoor

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

— Dolly Parton

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's…

— David Lynch

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

— Plautus

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you…

— Cennino Cennini

I'm interested in everything. If I had enough time on this earth, I'd like to learn every art practice.

— Hunter Schafer

Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed…

— Randall Jarrell

Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this…

— Tracey Emin

I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their…

— Chance The Rapper

Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only…

— Mavis Gallant

“The theory of 1,000 true fans states that an artist (not just writers, but musicians, filmmakers, carpenters, whatever) need only acquire 1,000…

— Sean Platt

“Art—real art—connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal…

— Stephen Harrod Buhner

“One might be tempted to extol as an advance over Sophocles the radical tendency of Euripides to produce a proper relation between…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of…

— Morgan Llywelyn

I don't want to join politics as I am an artist, and let me remain so.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

— Barbara Tuchman

When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

— Jack Antonoff

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Fame to an artist is like light to a vampire.”

— Rebecca Harlem

“It’s possible to commit art and entertainment in the same moment.”

— Christopher Isherwood

Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

— Matt Squire

“I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

— Alfred Sisley

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

— Clement Greenberg

Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

— Richard Armitage

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

— Mark Van Doren

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

— Leo Booth

“An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It's enough.”

— Seth Godin

Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

— James Whistler