Art Quotes · Page 319

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

— Natasha Rothwell

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I'm an artist who draws with a brush instead of a arms.”

— Mohamad Aidil Uzaimi

As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

— Andy Grammer

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

— Sir Arthur Sullivan

When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist.

— Isamu Noguchi

“Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”

— Mark Lawrence

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only…

— Roger Lewis

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch…

— Nick Cannon

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

— Clement Greenberg

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any…

— Anatole Broyard

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you…

— Kara Walker

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

— Julia Cameron

I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies.

— Thomas Ian Griffith

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

— Maya Lin

Hi Lea, great post. I feel that my about page has my story' but bcuseae I don't have experience in the industry,…

— Michel

My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix…

— Edward Sorel

I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is…

— Godfrey

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an…

— Andrea Dworkin

The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at…

— Judy Grahn

For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and…

— Daniel H. Pink

If we actually supported these gay artists and pumped money behind them the same way they pump money behind these divas, a…

— Cakes da killa

Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace…

— Elie Wiesel

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.”

— Michael Wolff

I don't wanna be a solo artist. I wanna be in Styx.

— Dennis DeYoung

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

— John Dryden

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

— Jonathan Pryce

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

— Federico Fellini

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

— Oscar Niemeyer

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

— Trevor Paglen

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

— Rodney Yee

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

— Pierce Brosnan

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.

— Martin Mull

Life isnt a support system for art. Its the other way around.

— Anonymous

“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

— Tony Blair

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

— Black Thought

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

— Henri Matisse

“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.”

— Laura Chouette