Art Quotes · Page 302

I view my hair and clothes as functional art...

— Erykah Badu

I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'

— Lynne Ramsay

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

— Christian Bale

Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

— Aeschylus

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

— Craig Thompson

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

— Swizz Beatz

“To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.”

— Masha Gessen

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the…

— Paul Cezanne

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

— Jean Racine

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

— Jimmy Cliff

“Through traditional realism, the comics artist can portray the world without-- --and through the cartoon, the world within.”

— Scott McCloud

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

— Ellie Goulding

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.

— Jake Tapper

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go…

— Z'EV

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or…

— Ernest Hemingway

As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I…

— Frank Delaney

The art of living deliberately is the art of examining this vast storehouse of beliefs, dropping the out-moded ones, consciously choosing those…

— Sir Richard Bishop

But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one…

— Elizabeth Berg

“And I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger. I…

— Cynthia Rylant

I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not…

— William Shakespeare

“If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!”

— Alan J. Perlis

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

— Amedeo Modigliani

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

— William Shakespeare

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

— Charles Bukowski

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

— I. A. Richards

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

— Jean Cocteau

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

— Glenn Ligon

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

— Joseph Brodsky

As an artist, I do not want to limit my skills to one medium alone.

— Javed Ali

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

— Diego Rivera

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

— Elsa Barker

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

— Christopher Ricks

“A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.

— Ken Jeong