Art Quotes · Page 30

Art is a perfectly complete cause.

— Sara Genn

You think you're an artist; prove it

— Laurence Olivier

There is no such thing as #1 in art.

— Mike Birbiglia

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

— Jeffrey Archer

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Tom the cat how did I do on this drawing :)

— Brianna Ramos

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

— Jonathan Franzen

I studied realism when I was in art school.

— Peter Max

“Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.”

— Krist Pauwels

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

— Raymond Chandler

“Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.”

— Carla H Krueger

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

— Vic Mensa

To be an artist is to doubt yourself and try harder.

— Jamie Hewlett

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

— Edith Wharton

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

— Frans de Waal

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

— John Romero

To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever…

— Josephine Decker

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It's beautiful to transcend generations and to just be inside an artistic work, together, enjoying what only a great artistic work can…

— Peter Davis

“Text, images, and video are the paint swatches of 21st-century artists — with a single catch: this form of art has to…

— Laura Busche

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men…

— George Eliot

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

— Walter Benjamin

I will show you all that I have mastered Fear. Pain. Hatred. Power. This is the art of ruin.

— Lamb Of God

“Just as when we step into a mosque and its high open dome leads our minds up, up, to greater things, so…

— Anita Amirrezvani

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors,…

— Charles Baudelaire

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record…

— Alan Lomax

There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what…

— Steven Soderbergh

Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're…

— Randy Thom

If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time…

— Orson Welles

“I remember once, in talking to Mr. Burne-Jones about modern science, his saying to me, ‘the more materialistic science becomes, the more…

— Oscar Wilde

Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are…

— Octavio Paz

Artists can do whatever they want!

— Marina Abramovic

As an artist, I want a reaction.

— Chester Bennington

Art is a business, like any other.

— Catherine Stock

You need the art in order to love the life.

— Nicholson Baker

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

— William Shakespeare

Don't be rushed, be sure.

— Rickson Gracie

Teach the art of living well.

— Seneca the Younger

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

— Hakim Bey