Art Quotes · Page 316

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

— Lord Byron

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

— Susan Sontag

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

— Sun Ra

“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

— Pablo Picasso

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

— Sally Mann

“You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.”

— Aldous Huxley

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

— Mark Bradford

The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.

— Dewitt Jones

“All dahlias are beautiful in their own way! I love them because they have the most perfect symmetry and come in a…

— Chantal Larocque

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

— Horace Walpole

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

— Francis Bacon

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a…

— Doseone

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

— John Lone

Initially, it was all money driven. I didnt give a s**t about arts. We were as broke as balls, so I just…

— Shia Labeouf

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do…

— Ava DuVernay

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I was looking at the work of the New York street artists and then discovering Basquiat and Haring after that and seeing…

— Robert Del Naja

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you…

— Irving Langmuir

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of…

— Kurt Schwitters

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly…

— Jack Nicklaus

I think, as an artist, the overall goal is to teach and educate no matter what the song is about. Somewhere where…

— Gza

At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with…

— Luigi Russolo

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it…

— Kathryn Bigelow

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

— Rosanne Cash

I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

— Lady Gaga

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

— Herbert Read

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

— Patti Smith

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

— Ani DiFranco

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

— Kenny Chesney

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

— Tahar Rahim

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

— Henry Moore

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

— Iggy Pop

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

— Julia Cameron

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

— Amy Sherald

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

— Bruce Pavitt

I found that music was my favorite art form.

— Andy Grammer

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

— G. E. M. Skues

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

— Evelyn Waugh