Art Quotes · Page 309

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

— Obie Trice

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

— Albrecht Durer

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

— Nikki Sixx

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

— Clifton Fadiman

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

— Robert Barry

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

— Theodor Adorno

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

— Sun Tzu

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

— Robert Jordan

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

— Chuck Close

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals…

— Bruno Tonioli

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a…

— Jerry Pinkney

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

— Mod Sun

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end,…

— Gerry Spence

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

— Rita Ora

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

— Renzo Piano

It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a…

— Jasper Johns

I kind of decided to take a year out to see where the music would go and then it started going somewhere…

— Florence And The Machine

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand…

— Tariq Ramadan

I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that…

— Nancy Spero

Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with…

— Elizabeth Flock

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the…

— Alan Moore

“Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth.”

— Kirsty Eagar

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

— Cleo Moore

“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.”

— Steven Erikson

I do feel I'm being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with 'Mortal Kombat.'

— Mark Dacascos

I would think Beyonce will be the greatest female artist of all time.

— Mathew Knowles

“Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.”

— Winston Churchill

“Art isn't a matter of 'what' but of 'how'.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I never considered myself a performance artist.

— Agnes Denes

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

— Simon Van Booy

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

— Skitch Henderson

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.

— Eric Maisel

TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.

— Cheyenne Kimball

“Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”

— Albrecht Dürer

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

— Tracey Moffatt

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

— Anthony Burgess