Art Quotes · Page 327

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

— Michelle Visage

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

— W. H. Auden

“I want to have a record of your nudity in one of my works of art." ~Larsson TIGER”

— Pet TorreS

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

— Stanley Kubrick

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

— Mas Oyama

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

— Max Beerbohm

I declare peace as the greatest work of art.

— Wolf Vostell

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

— John Maeda

The art of listening is a vital component to a relationship that thrives every day of the year, making Valentine's Day so…

— Joshua Rosenthal

Im the one to make the artists blow, Nintendo, smoke em do then go to party mode, put your hands up then…

— Maino

I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.

— Peter Marino

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet.…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student…

— John Mellencamp

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

— Rich Burlew

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave…

— Sally Mann

Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking…

— Monica Johnson

I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!'…

— Richard Artschwager

Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art…

— Camille Paglia

“You're my escort?" Devon shrugged. "The Big Guy tells you to do something, you do it, even if it means babysitting a…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite…

— Anonymous

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed…

— Sonny Rollins

Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended…

— Steve Winwood

I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and…

— Keren Ann

Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his…

— Richard Foreman

If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

— Sun Tzu

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

— Francis Ford Coppola

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

— Sean Kinney

“Fork! that symbol of the British art of gluttony.”

— Aporva Kala

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

— Ralph Richardson

“In the arts," James wrote, "feeling is always meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation.

— Anonymous

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

— Julien Torma

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

— Eudora Welty

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

— Herbert Spencer

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

— Ben Okri

On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

— Red Barber

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

— Paul Klee

“The great artists and poets may have gone, but football is here.”

— Phil Ball