Art Quotes · Page 290

I recorded 'The Art of Hustle' album three times because I had the time to do it.

— Yo Gotti

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

— Dasha Zhukova

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

— Antony Gormley

“Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.”

— Amit Ray

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

— Henri Matisse

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”

— Steven Magee

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,

— Donald Judd

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists…

— Ryan McGinley

'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be…

— Charles Bock

I do eventually want to go back to Sierra Leone and open an arts school there when all my dreams are accomplished.

— Michaela DePrince

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand…

— Sarah Thornton

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

— Igor Stravinsky

“The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that…

— Marcus Aurelius

“In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has…

— Henry Miller

God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or…

— Matthew Henry

Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not…

— Brice Marden

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand…

— Henry Adams

But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention,…

— William Johnson Cory

“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it…

— Eddie Vedder

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

— Doris Lessing

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

— Henry James

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

— Wassily Kandinsky

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

— Sue Grafton

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

— Sun Tzu

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.

— Miguel de Unamuno

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

— Harold Coffin

I knew I wanted to be in the arts and acting.

— Christopher Jackson

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

— Lisa Loeb

“We're not copying life, we're making a comment on it.”

— Richard Williams

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

— Garth Brooks

“Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows...”

— John Richardson

“Feeling sorry for myself was an art. I think a”

— Anonymous

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

— Michelangelo