Art Quotes · Page 33

Your apocalypse was fab.

— Tori Amos

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

— Lafcadio Hearn

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

— Soren Kierkegaard

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

— Alexander Pope

So. Lie there, my art.

— William Shakespeare

All good art is abstract in its structure.

— Paul Strand

Life imitates art -- but badly.

— Edward Abbey

My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do.

— Will Yun Lee

“Everything, everything, everything can be installation art”

— Sherman Alexie

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

— Leopold Sedar Senghor

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

— Jeff Koons

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

— Philipp Meyer

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

— Romain Rolland

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

— Aaron Carter

Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.

— Raheem DeVaughn

“Art is subjective and art as a form of entertainment escapism is as high art as any.”

— Miranda Hart

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

— Nelly

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

— Gustave Courbet

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist…

— Clement Greenberg

We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.

— Ari Emanuel

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have…

— Siri Hustvedt

Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Seminars, TV shows, documentaries, always spreading Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I'm an instrument of this art more than a character myself.

— Demian Maia

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

— Walter J. Phillips

Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a…

— Patti Smith

If you look at all the artists I've ever worked with, I'm still blessed enough to have one of the biggest singles…

— Sean Garrett

“She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings…

— Susan Vreeland

Nowadays I see my work being used, without my permission, as if it was an attack against the Trump regime. People want…

— Alfredo Jaar

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come…

— Norman Maclean

“It was yet another example of Jobs consciously positioning himself at the intersection of the arts and technology. In all of his…

— Walter Isaacson

Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to…

— Russell Simmons

“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too…

— K.J. Bishop

I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

— Big Freedia

Let silence be the art you practice.

— Jala Ad Din Rumi

Waiting is one of the great arts.

— Margery Allingham

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no art without intention.

— Duke Ellington

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

— Christina Stead

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

— John Grierson

An artist should have more than two eyes.

— Alphonse de Lamartine