Art Quotes · Page 298

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

— Nathan Fillion

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

— Edward Albee

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

— Louise Bourgeois

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

— Norman McLaren

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

— Questlove

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

— Georges Braque

“Even a mole may instruct a philosopher in the art of digging.”

— Ernest Bramah

“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence…

— Alfred Jarry

As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.

— Kevin Abstract

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

— Chris Johnson

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically…

— Hans Haacke

I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels…

— Adele

My East End secondary school was a horror show. We didn't study art, music or anything creative, and a bleak mood of…

— David Essex

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

— Robert Genn

Even last minute, you can find a great makeup artist at your local MAC store or department store makeup counter, and a…

— Shangela

Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the…

— Anonymous

It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just…

— Quavo

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

As in nature. and in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones, their…

— Thomas Guthrie

At the 'L.A. Times,' I always wanted to write about artists I thought were meaningful. So I interviewed Bob Dylan, John Lennon,…

— Robert Hilburn

I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening…

— Emily Lazar

Martial arts, for me, is not just some kind of job to gain some money or whatever. No, martial arts, for me,…

— Valentina Shevchenko

“I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear. If you have a message that really needs…

— Doug Stanhope

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

— Anonymous

“Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn't see it, but digital eye can.”

— Chanaka Satharasinghe

“Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.”

— Norman Mailer

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

— Walter Kirn

Often times, it's the missteps that make it brilliant

— Melody Minagar

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

— Brian Eno

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

— Anonymous

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

— Voltaire

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

— William Ralph Inge

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

— Gish Jen

“Everyone knew artists were all a little crazy”

— Kim Fielding

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

— Terence McKenna

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

— Graeme Base

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

— Andy Warhol