Art Quotes · Page 289

The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.

— The Weeknd

“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.”

— Jean Lescure

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

— Bono

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

— Vivek Shraya

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

— Robert Genn

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

— Kerry James Marshall

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

— Stephen Fry

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

— Samuel Butler

I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.

— Keala Settle

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

— Diane von Furstenberg

“To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good. It is enough to…

— Joseph Conrad

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

— Karl Marx

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the…

— Isaac Stern

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her…

— Shea Hembrey

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

— Garry Marshall

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is…

— Victor Hugo

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see…

— Joe Jonas

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like…

— Mark Parker

“ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE: "Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least…

— Alice Simpson

“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the…

— Anne Truitt

To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of…

— Josh Holloway

“Each weapon is a work of art, and I wonder what drives the impulse to make the instruments of death beautiful. A…

— Breeana Shields

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant…

— Elton John

Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the…

— Hannah Arendt

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

— Camille Henrot

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

— Jacques Lipchitz

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

— John Maeda

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

— Paul Simon

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

— Peter Max

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

— Gary Busey

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

— Dylan Thomas

Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.

— Goeran Gentele

“In Caverna lies were an art and everybody was an artist, even young children.”

— Frances Hardinge

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

— Max Bill

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

— David Gerrold

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

— George Bernard Shaw