Art Quotes · Page 320

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

— Howard Hodgkin

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

— Madonna Ciccone

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

— Donald E. Westlake

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

— Brad Holland

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

— Kathleen Hanna

“Being there for each other in the proper way is a fine art.”

— Peter Seeberg

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

— Roy Ayers

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

— Twyla Tharp

“I teach the kids history, or quantum physics, or art – but above all I try to teach them to think for themselves.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of…

— Robert Ripley

I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one…

— William Carlos Williams

“People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk…

— Christopher Bram

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a…

— Edward Burns

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the…

— Julie Burchill

To anyone who's unsure about coming out, I would say coming out and being honest definitely helps your art.

— Snow Tha Product

God makes something special and unique about each person that sets them apart from every other person, and to me that's is…

— Bubba Sparxxx

I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the…

— Murray Rothbard

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive…

— Jonathan King

I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life:…

— Lawrence Weschler

The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked…

— Eric Jensen

The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art…

— Edward Gibbon

I don't think that the big crunch should be seen as a menace, but rather as an opportunity. It's one of these…

— Maurizio Cattelan

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work…

— Aaron Scharf

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

— David Foster Wallace

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

“the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued.”

— Ray Dalio

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

— Varun Grover

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

— Shane Koyczan

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

— Ansel Elgort

“Be more of an artist, and “load every rift” of your subject with ore.”

— John Keats

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

— Daniele Vare

God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

— Francis Chan

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

— Michael Ende

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

— Richard Linklater

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

— Ellen Glasgow

I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

— Charli XCX

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

— Cyril Connolly

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

— Walter Keane