Art Quotes · Page 281

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

— Robert Burchfield

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

— Anonymous

I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.

— Kurupt

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

— Plato

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

— Anne Archer

“Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.”

— Michele Jennae

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

— Shana Alexander

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

— Evan Harris

You can't brand an artiste and take away the fact that he or she wants to do something genuinely different.

— Sameera Reddy

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the…

— Bob Schieffer

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

— Melanie Fiona

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

— Gary Shteyngart

“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several…

— Honore de Balzac

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its…

— Questlove

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

— Irving Stone

One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual…

— Kehinde Wiley

When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got…

— Petra Collins

When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time:…

— Ali Smith

“He glanced down at the movie poster art that had been skillfully airbrushed not his custom apron, thanks to Lani's interesting assistant,…

— Donna Kauffman

I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,…

— David McCullough

The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right,…

— Scott Borchetta

“She was rare, few and far between She suspected he would be as well And the thought of two rare, few and…

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that…

— Edmund White

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the…

— Anselm Kiefer

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

— Henry Moore

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

— Paul Lafargue

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

— Maria Semple

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

That's the thing about being an artist: you never should settle, really.

— Ross Lynch

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

— Claire Bloom

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

— Henry Fuseli

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

— Edmund Wilson

“Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

— Joan Sutherland

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

— Yoko Ono

Beautiful young people are works of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art

— Anonymous

“Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement and Interior Design with Feng Shui,”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

— Steven Pressfield

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

— Dries van Noten

Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

— Jesus Christ