Art Quotes · Page 303

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

— David Coverdale

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

— John Dewey

LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.

— Elvis Mitchell

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

— Willem de Kooning

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

— Lancelot Law Whyte

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

— Frederick Sommer

A friend of mine put me in contact with the artist Baaba Maal.

— Ludwig Goransson

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

— James A. Michener

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style…

— Jerry Saltz

A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol,…

— Roy Lichtenstein

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

— Anonymous

“We have a wig," Les said, "two broaches, two scarves, two shirts and a ticking time-bomb in my head. So we're going…

— Aldous Mercer

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

— Celeste Ng

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

— David Sedaris

My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and…

— Lindy Booth

I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material…

— Earle Brown

“But then I got into Joseph Campbell—The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell was the first…

— Timothy Ferriss

If you watch the award shows, you'll see variations of the hammer pants. It's always cool to see that and then every…

— MC Hammer

I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always…

— George Carlin

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So…

— Jonathan Santlofer

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there…

— Henri Matisse

I'd really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun I…

— Anna Paquin

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

— Jerzy Kosinski

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

— Carl von Clausewitz

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

— Anonymous

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

— Lee Simonson

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

— Bruno Tonioli

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

— Bernard Rudofsky

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

— Jan Tschichold

Artistes don't grow old, instead they grow younger.

— Suresh Gopi

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

— Joanna Russ

“We inspire each other. Poets and Artists are best friends and muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

— Quintilian

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

— Henri Matisse

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

— John Ruskin

Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.

— Paresh Rawal