Art Quotes · Page 317

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

— Miranda Lambert

“What separates design from art is that design is meant to be... functional . ”

— Cameron Moll

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art.

— Zaytoven

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

— John David Washington

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

— Pieter Hugo

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

— Marcel Duchamp

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and…

— John Ruskin

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is…

— George Herbert

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it…

— Alfred Kazin

I'm really an artist. I really do this. I don't need the money. It doesn't matter to me.

— Trippie Redd

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just…

— Yoko Ono

For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot…

— Lauren Jauregui

“When it comes to making art, our intuition is often light-years ahead of our intellect.”

— Ted Orland

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it…

— Joshua Reynolds

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor,…

— Om Puri

I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power…

— Raymond Pettibon

I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art…

— Jason Reynolds

I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older…

— Jaime Hernandez

Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts…

— Jake Shimabukuro

“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful…

— Karen Armstrong

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.

— Ronnie Lott

KOMODO DRAGON! It was for my brother, since he loves them.

— Jazzy

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

— Anonymous

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

— Twyla Tharp

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

— Julie Andrews

The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.

— Barnett Newman

“That’s the thing about art. It really helps to be unhappy.”

— Jonathan Hull

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

— Henry David Thoreau

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

— Gunter Grass

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

— Laozi

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

— Sun Tzu

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

— Marcel Duchamp

I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist.

— Fabolous

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

“But shitty human beings sometimes make great art.”

— Jerry Heller

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

— Herman Wouk