Art Quotes · Page 329

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“We are often more a piece of work than a work of art.”

— R.J. Grunewald

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

— Harry S Truman

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.

— Ian Harding

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

— Pablo Picasso

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

— Erich Fromm

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

— Willem de Kooning

The studio is the place for me to really confront my feelings and get it all out. I love being in that…

— Gabriella Wilson

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

— Mayim Bialik

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which…

— Edvard Grieg

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

— David Bowie

I got into the art of producing without the samples now. That takes piano lessons and all that.

— Inspectah Deck

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

— Charles Churchill

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I…

— Ben Sollee

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father…

— A. P. Herbert

It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for…

— Christopher Guest

When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that…

— Pipilotti Rist

Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve…

— Ove Arup

The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it…

— Gerhard Richter

I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its…

— Grayson Perry

I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much…

— Kele Okereke

When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint,…

— Dr. John

There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is…

— Brian Boyd

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

— Sam Shepard

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

— Balthus

We learned how to look at art from religion.

— Grayson Perry

“She has wings the color of wild and a soul the color of art.”

— Melody Lee

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

— Michel Foucault

“Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

— Anthony Braxton

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

— Kate Chopin

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

— Roger Ebert

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

— Petra Collins

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

— Rosanna Arquette

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

— Barry Eisler

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

— Vladimir Nabokov