Art Quotes · Page 28

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

— William Bernbach

Genius is the art of taking pains

— Claude C. Hopkins

“An artist's job is to make new clichés.”

— Grayson Perry

“It's called anime, and it's an art form.”

— Dean Winchester

The more far-out artists, the better.

— Gary Wright

I was not influenced by any artists.

— Andrae Crouch

Art is not a career - it's a life.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I don't have a beef with any female artist.

— Keri Hilson

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

— Thomas Merton

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

— Plato

My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.

— No I.D

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

— Karel Appel

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

— C. S. Lewis

“Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“We can only understand what art is through its embeddedness in an artworld.”

— Barbara Bolt

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

— David Elliott

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though…

— Paul Simon

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not…

— Blaise Pascal

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.

— Daryl Hall

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

— Nita Engle

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

— Franz Grillparzer

“I watched a bowl of fruit on the table remain motionless. Just another example of life imitating art.”

— Jarod Kintz

It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and…

— Tony Scott

Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there…

— Gerald Stern

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people…

— Michael Haneke

Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows…

— Sun Tzu

The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and…

— Jim Jarmusch

I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon,…

— Ronnie Dunn

There's benefits of having established artists on the record, Liam Payne on 'Polaroid' for example. If you look at that song you…

— Jonas Blue

Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His…

— Thomas Guthrie

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to…

— Ralph Ellison

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

— Edward Hirsch

Everything in life goes back to the basics.

— Kron Gracie

I like art. It's another way to rebel.

— John Waters

“It's not Art. And Art is not Design.”

— Chip Kidd

“Art is the closest thing I have to faith.”

— Abigail Boyd

Great trouble breeds great art, I think.

— Jesmyn Ward

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

— Martin Freeman

I think mixed martial arts changed my life.

— Merab Dvalishvili